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but this double-X Yankee proof spirit, never. John Bull might as well put up his umbrella and go 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Speech on "England and Taxation," delivered in London, June IStli, 
. 1802, taking the afBrmative side of the question, "Is Taxation 
without Representation Robbery?" 21 

Speech on the " American N'avy," its Present and Future Influence on 
the Commerce of the World. — America must be the First Naval 
Power in the World .' 25 

Speech delivered on " England's Neutrality and General Butler's Procla- 
mation." 26 

Speech on the question " Was President Lincoln justified in refusing 
permission to the London Times' Correspondent to embark with the 
Federal Army," in which Mr. Train most unmercifully handles " Bull 
Run Russelh" 28 

Lecture on " Temperance and Moral Reform," in which the wholesale 
debaucheries of the Derby day is shown up with terrible accuracy, 
and " Lord Brougham" receives one of the most scorching rebukes 
on record 33 

Great speech on "Mexico," in which he ably treats of the following sub- 
jects : — The Monroe Doctrine. — The Secret Treaty. — The Conven- 
tion and the Quarrel. — England a Fillibuster. — America's Four 
Cardinal Virtues. — Texas and the Mexican War. — Mexico before 
the Republic ST 

Speech on Intervention ! American! and Yankee Pluck 44 

Speech on the American Navy, the Monitor, Statesmen, Bankruptcy, 

Insolvency and Taxation 4T 

Speech of Mr. Train in which he stands before the English people as a 

"Convicted Felon." His able defence before the Masses 51 

Speech on the Federal Army of the United States, which has been 
termed his " Live Speech," delivered before the " London Society 
of Cogers," on March 22, 1862 54 

George Francis Train's Popularity in America. Flattering notices of 
his speeches on the American War, published by T. B. Peterson & 
Brothers, Philadelphia, and also extracts from the Press generally, 
showing that at the present time Mr. Train is one of the most popu- 
lar men in the United States .^ 5t 



20 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

Geors^e Francis Train and the Merchants of Boston. — Letter from ninety 
five of the leading citizens of Boston, and State Senators and Mem- 
bers of the Legislature of Massachusetts, to Mr. Train, and his reply 
to them 59 

Speech at the Anniversary Dinner of the Royal Asylum of St. Anne's 
Society. On this occasion the conduct of the Right Hon. Lord 
Campbell toward Mr. Train, was severely criticised, and formed a 
striking contrast between the English Nobleman and the American 
Citizen 61 

Letter from Mr. Train to the "Commercial Bulletin," Boston, Mass. 
In which Mr. Train sets forth a few facts for Boston, and gives 
them advice 62 

Mr. Train is unanimously elected an Honorary Governor of the Lambeth 

Pension Society, and his reply 64 

Mr. Train's Lecture at the Whittingham Club, for the benefit of the 

"Metropolitan Church Schoolmasters' Association." 65 

Train's Speech on " Slavery and Universal Emancipation," a masterly 
disposition of the question — " Is American Slavery to the Negro a 
stepping-stone from African barbarism to Christian Civilization ?".. 66 

Concluding Speech of Mr. Train on the above subject 10 

Train's Speech on the " Pardoning of Traitors," in the debate on the 
question "Would Civilization be advanced by the South gaining 
their Independence?" TY 

George Francis Train on arming Canada, and the Militia Bill. — " Canada 

cares as little for England as America does for Canada." 80 

George Francis Train's Defence of Ireland and the Irish 81 

George Francis Train's Reply to the Reverend Baptist Noel's Letter 83 

George Francis Train and the Irish 84 

Celebration of the Fourth of July, 1862. Being the Eighty-Sixth Anni- 
versary of American Independence 85 



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A YANKEE BULL IN AN ENGLISH CHINA SHOP. 

IS TAXATION WITHOUT EEPEESENTATION EOBBERY ? 
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ON ENGLAND AND TAXATION. 

[_From the London American of June 25fh, 1862.] 



If we may juc]ge from the energy of some 
of Mr. Train's late speeches — and he has 
been at it every night for months — the 
lawyers and the judges have not crushed all 
the life out of him. If Mr. Train talks too 
plainly, and uses metaphors and unwished- 
for truths, the debaters in the discussion 
halls should reply to his arguments point by 
point. If they do not, he will be entitled 
to the champion's belt — for all admit that 
in his case the ropes were cut. His adver- 
saries admit that they cannot but admire his 
pluck, even though they may condemn his 
zeal. We continue to report Mr. Train's 
speeches, because many have subscribed for 
the " LoKDON American" in order to get 
them — and as these speeches are copied 
throughout the North and West, we feel 
justified in catering to the wishes of our 
readers. His speech on Mr. Russell ap- 
peared entire in many of the leading Ameri- 
can journals. His speech in defence of 
Ireland and the Irish appeared in nearly all 
the Irish journals, and we make our acknow- 
ledgments for copying from our columns. 

The following speech made on Wednesday 
night, shows no loss of vigor or resources : — 

Mr. Train (who arrived late, and was 
loudly cheered,) asked. Is Taxation ivith out 
lieprese/datiun Rohhery ? 1 believe it is. 
(Hear.) And I intend to prove that the 
epigram was coined originally for England. 
Its application is perfect — Lord Camden 
was its author — America put it into practice 
— Englishmen adopted it — George the Third 
was forced to admit it — and for generations 
the phrase has laid fallow — and generally 
applied to America. So many Englishmen 
have been cutting-up America, inch by inch 
— (oh, and hear) — so many English writers 



have been engaged to show up the Ameri- 
cans — I take much pleasure in volunteering 
my services to examine a little into English 
life and actions. (Cheers.) To do it well 
you must give me full swing — keep your 
temper — (laughter) — remember that I am 
invited to speak — that I never allow any 
one to muzzle me — that if I am wrong the 
house is full of clever debaters anxious to 
put me right. (Hear, and cheers.) There- 
fore you must not flinch under the argument 
that I shall make, in order to prove that 
England has taxation, but no representation 
— hence the robbery. (Hear.) I may also 
mention that in future, Americans intend to 
send their Dickenses, and Marryats, and 
Trollopes to England, and rip up all the 
old vices they can find — (oh) — in return for 
England's kindness during the last half-a- 
hundred years, in caricaturing Americana 
and predicting the bursting of the Republi- 
can bubble. (Hear.) Thank God, America 
is emancipated from England, and intends 
now to turn the tables and patronize Eng- 
land as England formerly patronized 
America, (Cheers and laughter.) Now, 
gentlemen, are you prepared for some start- 
ling truths about England ? (Yes, and 
hear.) What are the qualifications for 
electors ? — A ten-pound rating ; if less, you 
can only vote for nninicipal aff;iirs. Hence 
the qualification for a vote is not morality — 
not intellect — not industry — not mind — but 
the diiference between ten pounds and five. 
You maybe a schoolmaster — a clergyman — 
a professor at Oxford — but unless you are a 
ten-pounder you are classed with the Mob. 
And is it true that these ten-pounders are 
bought and sold at the hustings? (No, and 
Yes, and some confusion.) Can it be possi- 

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ble tliat there are only one million of Elec- 
tors out of seven million able-bodied men in 
the empire? If true, then you must admit 
that you are burdened with taXes not levied 
by yourselves. Hence Taxation without 
Bcpreseidation is Robbery. (Cheers and 
dissent.) Those six millions of men repre- 
sent twenty-four millions of people, who have 
no repie?eiitation whatever in the Lords or 
the Connnons. (Oh ! and hear.) Again, 
two-tiiirds of the House of Commons is 
actually the House of Lords. (Hear.) The 
members are uncles, or brothers, or nephews, 
or sons, or connected by marriage with the 
Peers»^(hear, hear) — and there are so many 
members connected with the Army and 
Kavy, that when they vote supplies they 
actually vote their own salaries. (Hear and 
laughter.) "I spoke to fifteen hundred 
people last night in Spurgeon's old chapel," 
1 remai Ued to one of the Governing classes, 
" and they were all cheering for the people's 
carriage." " Ah, yes, Mr, Train," he replied 
" but you forget that you are in England — 
not in America. Here the people have no 
power ; yuu have made a great mistake in 
joining them." " But," I replied, " niy audi> 
ence was most respectable." " True, but 
the 3Job is powerless," he continued. Again 
1 pleaded your cause, and again he answered 
with a sneer, " You are going all wrong ; 
you mistake if you think the lUob has any 
power to assist you." This is a fair speci- 
men of the language that grates upon my 
ear in the higher walks of life. An audience 
like this, or even five thousand properly- 
behaved men at the Free Trade Hall, Man- 
chester, are called the 31ob. The Times 
usually remarks, when speaking of his 
speeches, that Mr. Bright addressed the 
2Uob at Birmingham — or Mr. So-and-iSo the 
mou at Manchester. Now, who compose 
this Mob ? Uu into the theatre and notice 
the two rows of stalls and the boxes, where 
the Lord's annointed eit in their opera cos- 
tume* — perhaps two hundred persons. The 
balance — the pit, the gallery, tier above tier, 
some two thousand, is called the Mob ! (No, 
and hear.) Did you ever see an opera-glasa 
from the dress-circle pointed at the pit or 
gallery V (No.) The governing classes are 
too much occupied at gazing al their own 
order to think uf the people. The politeness 
of the guard is addressed to the Hrst-class 
passengers, not to the second or the third, 
ile has iiu courtesies for the Mob, The ser- 
vant hears the word so often repeated he 
learns it by heart, and is the loudest in 
shouting against the dUob — and he, too, will 
tell you that the people are nobody, 'i'oady- 
ism in England is the rule— iu America the 
exception. (Hear, hear.) What are your 
taxes ? I asked the other night, when 
lecturing to the Lambeth working-meu. 
Seventy millions ! How much for the 
national debt ? Twenty-eight millions. Have 



you any consols, sir ? No. Have you in 
the gallery? No. Have you, sir, any 
interest in the national debt ? No. How 
very odd. Do you know any working-men 
who have? No. Then why do you pay the 
interest on this incubus that weighs you 
down, when those few who receive it call 
you the Mob ? (True, and hear.) Do you 
know how few receive this £28,000,000? 
Not three hundred tliousand persons. 
This interest, which you help to pay, allows 
the class above you to block all the gates of 
justice against ycm— allows them to drive 
elegant carriages, and live in palatial clubs, 
and call you the Mub, (No, and hear) The 
people they tell me are nobody. Thoy all 
run at the appearance of a policeman, and 
one soldier will frighten ten thousand of the 
M.ob. The people, they say, are the first to 
sell each other. I am telling you these 
things in confidence. (Laughter.) If true, 
Taxation without Represtntution destroys 
Liberty. (Hear.) There was more freedom 
in the feudal times than now. Then the 
feudal barons armed their retainers at their 
own expense. Now the feudal lords lay 
the burden upon the back of the people. 
(Hear.) Then the feudal barons waged 
short wars for want of resources — now, by a 
paper system based on a national debt, they 
can squeeze the interest out of the people's 
gains. (That's so.) Then they pawned the 
Crown jewels and the Crown lands for 
money to carry on the war — now they pawn 
the liberties of the working classes, and their 
success has stupified the mind of man. Gold 
became scarce— paper plenty — the national 
debt was turned nito a gold mine. (Hear.) 
Lampblack — white paper and a minister's 
signature — and lo ! EiglithundredmiUions 
of debt ! The annual interest extracted 
out of the British people amounts to one- 
fourth of the entire American debt. And 
yet you are always saying that we shall burst 
up nest mail, (Laughter.) 

"Great men have always Fcnraed great recompences, 

Epaminondas saved hiB Thebe.s auil Uie'.l, 
Not leavint; even bis funeral e.xpeuBes; 

Oeoige Wa^hlllglon had tliauka aud nouglit besidcj 
Except the W.1I cluudlep.i glory (Wh cb all men's is), 

To free lii« country ; Pitt, loo, l.ttd his pnde, 
And as a highsouled Minister ot State, is 

Ktnowued for ruiuiug Great Britain gratis I'' 

The security of this debt is based on the 
Revenue of the State — that failing the bonds 
are worthless. This year the Customs 
Revenue alone will fall oil' some millions in 
tobacco — (hear) — and the Income Revenue 
many more in cotton. The debt is good so 
long as the people pay the taxes. That 
failing the bonds are worthless and their 
owners ruined. Hence the people — the 
working classes — keep the governing classes 
atloat by continuing to pay interest on a 
debt that only the firmer tends to bind the 
manacles about the necks of the people. 
(Oh.) The working classes pay and seem 



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contented by being called the Moh by those 
they support. This cannot last. The ttmes 
are chavging / and look out that the people 
don't discover that Taxation Without Rep' 
resentation is Robbery. (Hear.) Is Eng- 
land only a pasturage for the aristocracy? 
Have the people really no voice in the Privy 
Council ? Are there no other statesmen in 
England capable of the management of 
affairs but Earl Russell, or Lord Palmcrston, 
or Lord Derby ? Do these leaders, repre- 
senting different parties, conspire together 
against the sacred rights of the working 
classes ? These classes have helped to pay 
one hundred millions in one hundred years 
for one family. The aristocracy disbursed 
the money-— was any of it paid to promote 
emigration ? to benefit the poor? "VVasany 
of it voted to promote the education of the 
working classes ? or give them moral or re- 
ligious advice? The Crown enjoys privacy 
■ — the Minister holds the keys of the treas- 
ury, and all these lords and ladies are pa'd 
out of the Civil List. The Peerage and the 
Church are the life arteries of the monarchy. 
The Civil List is the bank where the v/ork- 
ing classes deposit their hard-earned gains 
in order that the aristocracy may cheque 
upon it without limit. We still live in feudal 
times. The curfew still rings to the death' 
knell of the people. Kings cannot live with- 
out a priesthood and a great aristocratic 
class to assist them in keeping down the 
Mob. Debts and taxes and pauperism are 
the legitimate heirs of kings and nobles and 
priests. The Republican bubble, you say. 
has burst. When will the monarchical 
bubble break up ? When the working 
classes discover that Taxation without Rep- 
resentation is Robbery 1 Your monarchical 
Crown and Court and Cabinet cost you six 
hundred thousand pounds a year. Our un- 
ostentatious President and ministers cost 
twenty thousand pounds ! Would you like 
to know what this pomp and horse-guard 
show has cost England since George tiie 
Third put on the crown til! now ? Don't 
start when I tell you that it is over one 
hundred millions sterling — more than a 
million a year? and this for only one family, 
and a family not allowed to marry in Eng- 
land 1 Does much of this great sum go to 
push up the little thrones of the thousand 
German princes who marry the royal heir- 
esses of England ? (Hisses.) Approve or 
disapprove as you will— -1 take the allirmative 
— others the negative. (Applause.) It is 
only a debate in which we use statistics, 
intellect, and pluck. (Laughter and cheers.) 
The aristocracy and shopocracy live upon 
the people. The working classes of England 
have made her what she is. (Cheers.) They 
pay the bills — they do the labor — they bear 
the burden —and in return for doing all this, 
the governing classes wave the English flag 
before their joyful eyes— point to the British 



lion, and raise more taxes to pay contracts 
for their own order, and send soldiers to 
fight agiiinst the Americans, who are noth^ 
iiig more than Englishmen who fought and 
obtained the right of governing themselves. 
(Cheers.) In return for the worship and 
admiration the working men bestow upon 
their masters, the aristocracy give them the 
great boon of organiaing themselves into a 
Great Union workhouse for the support of 
the upper Ten Thousand. The working 
classes bear the burden, and, in payment for 
their Ejervices, are called fhe Mob, Butler 
was an English poet. How well he tells the 
terrible truth 

'Tis thpy m,a"nt.lin the Church and State, employ the 

priest and niagistrate, 
Bear aU the charge ot Government, and pay the public 

fines and rent: 
Defray all taxes ."Ind excises, and impositions of nil prices; 
Bear a'l tlie expense of peaOe and w<tr, and pay the pulpit 

and the bar ; 
Maintain hII eliurches and religious, and giAe their 

pat tor's Exbiljitions 1 

(Laughter and cheers). Yea, you pay the 
interest, and they hold the bonds. Has the 
debt done anything for the working men? 
This debt is used to break your love of 
liberty; and generations of oppression have 
made you forgetful of the rights of man. 
Only think of it — not three hundred thous^ 
and people hold all the Consols and Funded 
Debt of England I and none of these belong 
to the working classes, who are made to pay 
the interest on that which never benefited 
them. This debt furnishes the means to 
pay soldiers to shoot you down, if you dare 
to say you are not the Mob — or demand 
your rights ! A friend of mine — an English^ 
man^-sings a song called Happy Land, 
wherein he shows ihixt Britons never ivill fee) 
slaves. (Applause). If they submit to 
taxation without representation, they never 
will be an ytb ino-else. (Hear.) What have 
you to do wit^the wars of the Georges? — ■ 
or the Tuoors ?— or the Plantagenets ? 
This incubus of debt that bears you down 
you did not incur^=-nor your fathers. The 
debt was raised by the fathers of the class 
that call you the Mub— as their fathers called 
your fathers the Mob before, and their sons 
will call your sons the Mob, unless you find 
out that Taxation ivithout Represe)dation 
is Robbery. (Cheers, mingled with dis- 
sent.) You dissent. Let me ask, How 
much do you pay for the army and navy this 
year? Thirty millions. Have you any 
friends in the service? No. Have you, .Vi r» 
Chairman? No. Have you, there, below 
the gangway ? No. Are you sure that 
none of the working men have any of the 
contracts ? No. Then why do you pay the 
bills? Why submit? Thirty millions, and 
twenty-eight more on the debt, make fifty- 
eight millions of the seventy. This leaves 
out the civil service. How much is that ? 
One thousand placemen receiving one thous 



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and pounds each ? There are some thirty 
thousand more placemen in England, and 
you contribute some four millions sterling 
to their support. No wonder they call you 
the Mob ! Are any of your friends em- 
ployed ? No, indeed. Are you aware that 
you have paid four hundred millions for the 
army and navy during the last twenty 
years ? Did you know that the estimates 
have doubled during the last ten years? 
You must then acknowledge that Taxation 
without Representation is Robbery. It is 
generous in you not to complain. English 
men never grumble. (Laughter.) The wild 
deer herd together at the approach of the 
huntsman. The sheep gather in flocks when 
the wolves howl. 'NVhy, should not the 
working classes follow the instincts of the 
lower animals, and stand side by side when 
their rulers combine against their liberties. 
The conspiracy is general and gigantic. 
The aristocracy use the shopocracy as the 
weapon with which they destroy the indi- 
viduality and independence of the millions. 
It is cleverly done : you manage these things 
well. (Applause.) The middle classes are 
ever ready to join the robles, and call the 
people the Moh ! Talk with any so-called 
gentleman, retired tradesman, or manufac- 
turer, and he will tell you the people are no- 
body — never heed the Mob. (Dissent.) 
Taxation loitliout Representation is Rob- 
bery. Working men are not all the fools 
you would make them. I asked a working 
man the other day what he thought of 
national glory. Here is his apostrophe 
England ! — " Thou who professest to be the 
rose of Sharon and the lily of the valley ; 
who vauuteth thy piety and humanity at the 
corners of the streets, and sendeth forth thy 
armies to murder and plunder unarmed 
thousands, rendering thy dau^^rs widows 
and thy children fathei>!esug|^feng waste 
that wliich the Almighty l^^^^plias given 
thee!" (Hear, hisses, and^^^ws.) Eng- 
land ! Mighty England ! Thuu who pro- 
fessest to be the prince of honesty and the 
balance of equity; who, by force of arms 
and deception, robbed the Hindoo of his 
domains, the New Zealander of his pos- 
sessions, and sown the seeds of rancour and 
hate and envy among thy people against thy 
blood-relations in America ! (No, and 
" That's so.") And with thy hypocrisy 
would rivet the shackles on the negro, and 
rob the slave of his birthright. Thy policy 
is before Him that judgeth righteously, who 
will weigh thee in the balance and lind thee 
wanting in humanity, in honesty, in justice, 
and e(|uity, and for thy iniquity will spue 
thee out of His mouth, and make it more 
horrible lor thee on the last day than those 
of Sodom and Gcmorrah ! (Oh, and 
laughter.) And so long as we, the working 
classes, continue to remain the jackals of 



this rampant lion and find the means to pay 
the interest on that great debt that has 
never added to our prosperity, and each 
year treads us the deeper into the slough of 
Ignorance and Despondency, so long shall 
we be considered nobody in the land — hold- 
ing no power — spit upon, sneered at, de- 
spised, and called the Mob. (Cheers from 
working men — and hisses from the middle 
classes.) The governing classes so far have 
played their cards well. We have in America 
three hundred and fifty thousand slave-owners 
who have ground down millions of Africans. 
You have three hundred thousand owners 
of the national debt that also have crushed 
the liberty out of millions of Europeans, 
(Oh, and a hiss.) You may hiss, but let 
me tell you the distance between the work- 
ing classes and the aristocracy is far greater 
than between the African slave and the 
American slave-owner. (Applause, and no.) 
This arises from the curse of your national 
debt and making Taxation without Rep- 
resentation Robberj. When an individual 
becomes insolvent, a bank fails, or a firm is 
bankrupt, a compromise is made with the 
creditors — if only a shilling, a settlement is 
made. Why not apply the rule to the 
national debt ? You who have a few crown 
jewels and crown lands which would realize, 
perhaps, a sixpence in the pound. (Laughter 
and oh). Why not wipe off the debt? The 
nation has been bankrupt for years. (Oh, 
and dissent.) So much accommodation has 
been resorted to to keep up the nation's 
credit, I am told, that it has raised the price 
of paper. (Oh, and laughter. — A voice : 
better than repudiating.) ]\Ir. Tyas says, 
better than repudiating. Exactly — and I 
am glad to remind him that there is but one 
nation on the earth's surface that ever was 
honest enough to pay off" its national debt 
— and that nation was America ! (l-oud 
shouts of derisive laughter.) Gentlemen, I 
challenge you to deny that our people did 
not, three years ago, redeem the last of our 
national debt at the enormous premium of 
116. (Loud cheers and signs of assent.) 
To-day our one hundred millions for this war 
stands at Six premium, while your funds re- 
main at Six discount. (Applause.) Let 
Napoleon give one sneeze, and (.'onsols will 
drop to Forty. (Oh, and laughter.) The 
only way England has kept up appearances 
in her credit is by quietly consenting to be- 
come a province of France — (No, and dis- 
sent) — and by sending her ships all over the 
world, as llolloway does his pills. (Laughter.) 
No wonder the dark-colored natives are 
talven-in — no wonder they magnify Eng- 
land's greatness. When they see your great 
ships on their shores, what a wonderful 
power, they say, must that be that can 
afford to spend so many millions in adver- 
tising 1 (Loud laughter and cheers.) 



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GEORGE nkKlS TRAIN ON THE AMERICAN NAVY. 



[Fom the London American, of June 25, 1862. 



We believe the time Las arrived in the 
history of nations for America to demand 
her proper position in the world ; and we 
cordially agree with Mr. Train that the 
shortest way to arrive at that independent 
position is again to copy England, and have 
the largest navy afloat For the forthcoming 
struggle for the mastery of the seas. 

Mr. Train: Amei'ica must be the only 
First-class Potver in the World. Our Par- 
rot guns are superior to those of Napoleon. 
Hurrah for Parrot! Our Dahlgren guns 
beat Armstrong, and throw Blakely into the 
sliade. Hurrah for Dahlgren ! James's 
projectiles and Sharp's rifles are both 
American institutions. Hurrah for the 
American navy — hurrah ! The navy of Eu- 
rope is an ark. 'I'he Monitor and the Ste- 
ven's Battery could destroy it in less than 
forty days. (Oh, and laughter.) Wht/ have 
we not been a first-rate poiver? Because 
we had no navy. But the times are chang- 
ing — a year since our navy was a ghost — 
now it is a well-organised skeleton. Let 
Citizen Lincoln hurry up its iron flesh, its 
steel sinews, and put life into it in the shape 
of steam. (Cheers.) We must have a navy 
larger than England, larger than France, 
never mind the expense. We, the people, 
pay the bills. (Hear.) Nations are power- 
ful in proportion to their navies. (Hear.) 
Peter the Great was a ship builder, his 
power was based upon his navy. Genoa was 
prosperous with a navy, so was Venice, Hol- 
land, and Portugal. They lost their power 
when they lost their navies. Who once 
owned South America, Me.xico, Louisiana, 
Florida, and Gibraltar? — Spain. The 
Spanish Armada was sunk, and Spain lost 
her colonies when she lost her navy ! Na- 
poleon sighed for a navy — France wanted 
ships, commerce, and colonies and organ- 
ized armies. England had ships, colonies, 
commerce and organized navies. Nelson 
won the Nile's battle and Napoleon lost 
Egypt. Napoleon lost Trafalgar and Wel- 
lington gained Waterloo. The Third Na- 
poleon saw his uncle's mistake, and slowly 
and surely has built a monster navy. 

America must he the First Navcd Power 
in the World. England has become inso- 
lent, arrogant, and cowardly insulting 
through her navy. (No.) She has con- 
trolled the world's commerce. How? By 
her navy. England has no army of import- 
ance, but has domineered over all nations 
with her navy. A few months ago she sent 
her squadrons to destroy our empire. 



(Shame.) Americans will never forget it. 
(Hear.) England's bulwark was her navy, 
her tower her men of war. Cromwell's 
Navigation Laws have always been cherished 
by England's nionarchs — the Stuarts, the 
Tudors, the Georges, and the Victorias. 
(Cheers.) If History is Philosophy teaching 
by example, Americans are philosophers. 
The irrepressible conflict is close at hand — 
the battle prize is the dominion of the uni- 
versal ocean. Our Drakes, Duncans, Jer- 
vises, Collingwoods and Nelsons are all still 
alive. Yours are dead. Monuments never 
fight. Live men compose our navy. Our 
Duponts, and Porters, and Wordens, and 
Farragutt are worthy successors of our De- 
caturs, Paul Jones, Bainbridges, Lawrences, 
Perrys and Porters. (Cheers.) Hurrah for 
the American navy. A change is on the 
world — America has toadied England long 
enough — our people, thank God, at last are 
emancipated. England can no longer irri- 
tate us. Hail to our gallant navy ! Our 
people must pass a law compelling every 
merchant ship to take from five to ten ap- 
prentices. Let them wear the navy buttons, 
the captain must be responsible and the 
shipowner must pay the bills. We want a 
militia of the seas. (Cheers.) Our sailors 
must be on the ocean what our volunteers 
are on the land. We must have a navy 
Our improvised gunboats have earned, in • 
co-operation with the army of the Constitu- 
tion, immortal fame. AVho won laurels at 
Fort Henry? — the Gunboats. Who at 
Fort Donelson? — the Gunboats. AVho cap- 
tured the islands on the Great River ? — oui 
Gunboats ? Who gave victory to our arms 
at Pittsburg Landing ? — our gallant Gun- 
boats. (Cheers.) Who captured Macon, 
Roanoke, Pulaski? — our Gunboats, And 
who, pray, took New Orleans? — I answer, 
our unconquerable Gunboats. Vicksburg 
fell, Natchez capitulated, and Memphis sur- 
rendered to our navy ! Our sailors are as 
brave as our soldiers are bold. Our gun- 
boats are manned by regiments of Casibian- 
cas ! Long ere this our gunboats have bat- 
tered down treason in Mobile, Savannah, and 
Charleston. (Cheers.) America is eman- 
cipated. England is not our mother, 
America has passed out of leading strings. 
Cut the connecting link of the gunboat 
canal through from the Atlantic to the 
Mississippi. Make a passage along the 
Lakes, and do it at once. The people pay 
tlie bills. Cut another canal to connect the 
rivers with New Orleans via Carolina, and 



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let our frnnboats have a race course inside 
our empire. (Clieera.) The people of 
America never call each other the mob. 
(Cheers ) It is not alloioed. Some clay 
the people here will not permit Ihe London 
Times to call them the mob. (Shame, and 
hear.) We want two hundred more Galenas, 
Naugatucks, Ironsides, and Monitors. We 
have now fifty, and must now have one hun- 
dred thousand sailors to compose our militia 
of the seas. p]nglishmeu you have lost a 
jrreat opportunity. We proffered friendship. 
You declined. You thoug-ht we were on 
our deathbed, and you crept into our room 
in the dark ; but the dagger was withheld — 
when the rebels were given up, lago was a 
contemptible character. W^e are well now 
— we look you in the face — and you are 
ashamed. Your abolition sentiments were 
too base to be called by the more Christian 
name of hypocrisy. You preached abolition 
because you thought that was the bone of 
contention that would ruin our Republic. 
(Oh, and hisses.) We have discovered how 
dishonest has been your action. You have 
played a deep game, but we have caught 
you packing the cards. (Oh,) You knew 
the dice were loaded. You put the poison 
into the cup, and administered with your 
own hands the dose. (No.) We saw you 
in the glass when your back was turned. 
(Applause.) But our constitution was more 
than equal to the shock. 

America must have a navy. We have 
scores of admirals, and fisherman are grand 
material for sailors. (Hear.) Already our 
navy, our little six months' improvised navy, 
has accomplished wonders. The cotton 
lords will now admit that our blockade has 
been effectual. The British ministers do not 
call it now a paper blockade. Ask the 
Joint stock Buccaneering firm of Prieleau, 
Treason and England, if the blockade was 
effectual. Our action has been short, sharp, 



and surprising. Our gallant navy has lately 
taken one hundred and sixty-seven pirates. 
(Oh, and doubted.) The gentleman doubts it, 
I have the statement : — 12 steamers, 9 ships, 
10 propellers, 13 barks, 11 sloop>s, and 112 
schooners, (cheers,) valued at some fifteen 
millions of dollars. The pirate firm must be 
bankrupt since the capture of the steam- 
ships Patras, Circassian, Bermuda, Nassau, 
Cambria, and Stettin. (Applause.) Those 
steamers have changed hands. The battle 
of the seas must be fought over ; we have 
already had too many words ; we must come 
to blows. (Hear.) We have toadied you 
long enough, you must now follow our ex- 
ample. Earl Bussel says we are fighting for 
empire. He is right — the empire of the 
seas ! Once you kept us always in a I'eyer, 
now we intend to make you sleep restless. 
Once you were our superiors, now we are 
yours, (Oh, and cheers.) Once we thought 
you were great, fair, honest — now we see 
through your disguise. Providence smiles 
'lovingly upon its chosen people, but frowns 
upon other lands. I see no sunshine to-day 
in this hemisphere. England is short of 
corn, short of cotton, and there is a famine 
of liberty in the land. (Hear.) All looks 
dark and gloomy in Europe, all looks happy 
and joyous in America. How Russia shakes 
with the upheaving masses whose liberation 
has startled the nobles from their slumbers ! 
How Italy trembles under the cries of sub- 
dued revolution ! How Germany quivers 
with the underground swell of Democracy I 
(Hear.) And Prance, too, and China, with 
Tartars waging war with Taepings, and 
Turks measuring arms with Montenegrins, 
while America cheers lustily for liberty, self- 
confident that she possesses the largest head 
and the best quality of brain in the Phre- 
nology of nations, (Loud cheers and ap- 
plau.se,) 



GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ON ENGLAND'S NEUTRALITY! 
AND GENERAL BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION. 

[Ffom the London Americayi of June 18, 1862,] 



ENGLISH NEUTRALITY. 



Mr. Train— Neutrality signifies weakness. 
All small minds hesitate. Lack of decision 
shows lack of power. Generals who win 
battles are not neutral men. Neutrality on 
the American rebellion is taking sides in 
disguise. 1'he man who is soft on the 
American question is soft on all questions. 



I despise soft Americans as well as soft 
Englishmen. It is impossible for an honest 
man to be neutral. (Cheers.) He who is 
not for me is against me. The Indian Thug 
is remarkable for his neutrality until his 
garotte is round your neck. The Camanche 
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ScalpirifT knire sleeps in his belt. Dumol- 
lard, the French nmrderer, was a neutral 
before he destroyed his victims. There is 
no halfway between a patriot and a traitor. 
The woman who permits the least familia- 
thy has already lost lh« foundation of her 
virtue. (Loud upplause.)' — Let her remain 
ineatral in the presence of the libertine and 
she is lost. 'I'he young man counting his 
employer's money must not be a neutral — if 
he does net wish to end his life upon the 
gallows. The coat I have made fits exactly 
the neutral bankers and leading Americans 
abroad — who are waiting for victories be- 
fore hoisting Secession or Union Flags. 
(Shame.) The garment is not out of place 
on EngLand's back. Neutrality in England 
is treachery. (Oh.) Americans say, Eng- 
land, vv'ith all thy faults, we iove thee still ! 
■ — Englishmen say, America, with all thy 
virtues, we continue to hate thee. (No, and 
hear, hear.) Strong men choose sides — 



weak men are always neutral ; once an idiot 
— always an idiot. (Laughter.) The world 
is packed with fools. (Oh, and laughter.) 
Neutrality is imbecility. No man can serve 
two masters. He must either love the one 
and hate the other, or hate the one and love 
the other. Our Saviour was not a neutral. 
England for three generations has been un- 
just to America, lie that is unjust in little 
is unjust in much. ^J'he maxim comes from 
an ancient and respectableauthority. (Hear, 
hear.) Unjust in small matters for half a 
century, England was just ripe for being 
unjust in great matters during our revolu- 
tion. Neutrality is disguise — assassins are 
neutral before they upe the poignard. The 
tiger in the Jungle is a neutral before he 
plunges ou his victim. When you wish to 
destroy an enemy, you first conceal your 
plan Error and injustice are neutral before 
becoming arrogant and impudent. (Hear.) 



GENERAL BUTLEII\S PROCLAMATION, 



A love of fault-finding is no proof of wis- 
dom. Your criticisms on General Butler's 
proclamation are as just as your pretended 
aove for America is honest. Critics, says 
Wycherley, are like thieves who, condemned 
to execution, choose the busine-^s of execu- 
tioners rather than be hung. (Oh ! and 
hear.) Your distortion of the New Orleans 
proclamation is worthy of the people that 
Were abolitionists when they thought, by 
preaching that doctrine, they could break 
up our Republic — and pro-slavery advocates 
when they believed that we should preserve 
the Union. (No.) The proclaniatioo you 
have dishonestly transiated. Do you mean 
to say that you believe General Butler 
issued the order for immoral purposes ? (No, 
and Yes.) Do you really understan<l its 
Wording to signify that unbridled licence was 
given to the Federal army? The very idea 
js contrary to the instincts of our nature — 
(hear) — insulting to the American people, 
and outraging the sense-s of oar race. (Ap- 
plause.) You give the order a meaning 
taever intended. It was unfortunately 
worded, but the spirit of the order was a 
proper one. (Oh.) Ladies hold tlic remedy. 
Let them remain in door.s — let them behave 
like women, not like human tigresses. The 
terrible slaughter of our soldiers will some 
day lay heavy upon their consciences. 
Women who go out of their way to insult 
Federal officers who have treated them 
with every courtesy, by pouring hot water 
out of their windows when they pass, or 
throwing vitriol in their face on the pave — 
(oh !) — or so far uusexing themselves as to 
strike ao officer, ought not to object, when 
martial law is ordered, to proclamations that 
enforce civility where rudeness was so 



marked. The municipal law permits no dis- 
order in the street. Women breaking it are 
sent to tire Calaboose. That is the terrible 
order, nothing more- — nothing less — that 
arouses England and provokes this debate. 
Ijord Palmerston takes advantage of it to 
have another fling at the Americans, and 
Gregory and Walsh are mad with delight. 
Lord Carnarvon also brings out Earl Rus- 
sell, and all the newspapers clap their hands 
in joy- — and you, gentlemen, echo the senti- 
ment of the land. Do you remember a pic- 
ture in the Illustrated News during the 
Sepoy revolution? I do — and three features 
were prominent — cannon — English officers, 
and Sepoy messengers bearing a flag of 
truce. (Hear.) The picture has another 
side- — the officers consult — the Sepoys are 
bound on to the n]uzsle of the guns — and, 
with their flag of truce tied around, they 
were blown towards the camp from whence 
they came. (Horrible — shame.) Did Mr. 
Seward get up in his place in the Senate 
Chamber, and protest against it in the name 
of humanity? The atrocities of your soldiers 
in India were only equalled in their brutality 
by Nena Sahib himself. (Oh.) When a 
British officer enters a Sepoy village and 
gives the order to his regiment to ravish the 
Sepoy women, and then level their houses 
to the earth, humanity shudders for civiliza- 
tion. Compared with such fiends, General 
Butler is a scholar, a gentleman and a 
Christian, How forgetful of the rights of 
civilization, for our statesmen to remain 
silent without recording their indignation at 
such brutal acts ! (Dissent.) England must 
feel proud of those Christian officers, and 
no wonder she is indignant at Butler. 
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Limerick? Is it true tbat Englishmen rav- 
ished the women before butchering the gar- 
rison and burning tiie town ? Do you 
remember the cold-blooded slaughter of the 
Macdonalds of (jlencoe, under the same 
dynasty ? Verily, what a man was Lord 
Byron : — 

You are the heat of cutthroats ! Do not start ? 

The jihrase is Shakspearn's, aud not misapplied : 

\Var"R a brain siaiterini; — windpipi'-sliliing art, 

Unless her cause by right be sanctified. 

If j'ou have acted once a generous part, 

The world, and not the wurld's niasterti, will decide ; 

And I shall he delighlid to learn who. 

Save you and yours, have gained by Waterloo ? 

(Loud cheers ) Davoust in Hamburg — 
Junot in Lisbon — MalakoCP in the Algerian 
caves — were guilty of acts — and Wellington 
at 8t. Sebastian — worthy of Russia in Po- 
land or Haynau in Austria. (Oh ! and 
applause.) Butler's offence is words — Eng- 
land's offence was acts. Was Butler's 
motive good or bad ? It is the motive, not 
the act, that blackens the crime. (Hear, 
and cheers.) England is not the laud to 
give America examples as to the treatment 
of women. (Applause.) America is a 
country where its youth are taught not to 
insult an old man or a woman, and a woman 
can go through the entire country without 
being insulted. America is the land where 
education and religion gives tone to the 
morals of our people. How careful England 
is to find fault with our Federal army. 
(Hear.) Have you seen any questions on the 
Parliamentary paper asking if the reports 
are true regarding atrocities of the Con- 
federate army ? Has the Federal power no 



friend at Court to ask these questions of 
Lord Palmerston ? Is it true that savages, 
led on by Confederates, scalped our wounded 
officers at Pea Ridge? (Hear.) Is it true 
that Governor Sprague found some of his 
aides, who were killed at Bull Run, buried 
with their faces downward? Is it true that 
Federal wounded on the ground at the bat- 
tle of Winchester were bayoneted by Con- 
federate soldiers? (Hear.) Is it true i\\^t 
the ladies of a certain town in Virginia in- 
vited one hundred Federals to their houses 
to tea, and their brothers, who were in am- 
bush, rushed in and put all to the sword? 
Surely America ought to have one friend 
bold enough in Parliament, when Gregory 
and the Premier are hurling their invectives 
against America, to inquire if it is true that 
the skull of a Federal officer is a bon-bon 
for a rebel lady! — (oh)- — that Madame 
Beauregard, who was treated with so much 
politeness by General Butler, wears a cameo 
cut from the bone of a Federal colonel ! — 
that rebel ladies wear rings and brooches 
made out of the skulls of our brave officers ! 
—that the proper thing for the rebel gentle- 
men at Richmond is to have a spittoon 
made out of a human head ! (Oh, and hear.) 
In conclusion, let me ask if England controls 
America's action? If England pays our 
Federal officers ? If England must first be 
consulted before we declare martial law ? 
(Cheers.) I was not aware that Abraham 
Lincoln was elected President of the power- 
ful American Republic by the bankrupt 
monarchies of Europe. (Cheers and ap- 
plause.) 



GEOEGE FRANCIS TRAIN'S COMPLETE CASTIGATION OF 
"BULL RUN RUSSELL." 

TEE AMERICAN CHAMPION AND THE ENGLISH LIBELEE. 



MR. TRAIN CUTTING UP THE "TIMES" CORRESPONDENT 
INCH BY INCH. 

[From the London American of April 30, 1862.] 



The notorious correspondent of the Lon- 
don Times is receiving, as might be e.x- 
pectcd, the sympathy of all good Secession- 
ists in England. Secession writers, taking 
their cue from the Secession article on his 
expulsion from the Federal Army, in the 
1 hunderer, mourn over his exit, and Seces- 
sion speakers are so strong in the London 
discussion halls, it is difficult to find any one 
to take up the weapons against him. Mr. 
Train, however, who is generally present at 



these debates of the people, vigorously sup- 
ports the Union side of all questions on 
American affairs, and is always ready to 
reply to any speaker or any number of 
speakers, with facts, figures and argumputs, 
in patriotic defense of his country and her 
institutions. 

The attack of Russell on our President 
and Secretary of War. made in the Tirnes 
on his return to England, is one of the 
weakest of his many slanders against our 



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people, and it will be seen by the following 
speech, recently delivered at one of the 
London discussion halls, that Mr. Train has 
most effectually used the scalping-knife in 
showing up this miserable reviler of our 
institutions. The question under discussion 
was, " Was President Lincoln justified 
in refusing permission to the Times' cor- 
respondent to embark with the Federal 
Army?" After a severe attack upon the 
President and the Administration, the au- 
dience seemed to look upon Mr. Train for a 
reply in defence of the Federal policy, and 
most effectually he did his duty in acting as 
the European mouthpiece of the American 
people. Two or three other speakers being 
on their feet, Mr. Train begged that they 
might be heard first, but the audience 
insisted upon his occupying the floor. From 
the London American we take the follow- 
ing report of Mr. Train's address : 

Mr. Train. — Mr. Chairman and gentle- 
men : No debate can show vigor unless 
there are two sides. (Hear.) To-night, 
thus far, there has been but one. Russell is 
the pet of the PJnglish people, and the 
rebuke he has received at Washington has 
offended you ; hence comments have been 
made to-night, too sweeping in their cen- 
sure, too severe in their application, for me 
to let them pass unnoticed. (Hear, hear.) 
It is a delicate thing for a foreigner to 
attack the household gods of any nation ; 
but those who know me are aware that I 
generally express my thoughts regardless of 
the consequences to myself. I shall look at 
this question entirely through my own eyes, 
hear it through my own ears, scent it with 
my own nasal organ — (laughter) — taste it 
with my own tongue, and feel it with my 
own hands. (Applause.) A corporation, 
it is said, '' has no soul to save, or no bottom 
to kick." (Loud laughter.) I do not ex- 
pect to find the former in the Times' corres- 
pondent, but I will leave it to you to say, 
when I have concluded, whether I have not 
discovered some secession spot as a resting 
place for the foot of a Union man. (Oh ! 
laughter and applause.) The Times, for 
half a century, as the paid organ of the 
governing classes — (Oh !) — has consistently 
abused and misrepresented everything 
American, (Hear, hear.) Its policy h .s 
been to search the criminal calendar for the 
most obscene and revolting cases of crime, 
in order to portray them in its columns as 
the leading characteristics of the American 
people. (That's so.) Out of a hundred 
leaders in the American papers, on com- 
merce, education, or politics, there might 
have been one article on crime ; that article 
was at once seized upon by the Times to 
prove to Europe from our own mouths how 
demoralized we had become. Vice was 
always inserted in leaded type : Virtue wag 



not a characteristic of Republics. By 
constant repetitions of these slanders, every 
thing that was vile in the history of man 
was stamped upon the American. (Oh ! and 
hear, hear.) Americans are generous as 
well as just, and you can imagine how mor- 
tified they must have been, after the warm- 
hearted shake of the hand they gave your 
future King, to see the Times preach day 
after day against the Union and the law. 
(Hear, hear.) At the commencement of the 
war Mr. Russell was sent out to describe 
the vicissitudes of the strife. We knew him, 
as we know all your writers, and are first 
to discover their talents. Thackeray was 
known in every village, and returned to 
England with money in his pocket to be 
told when he was defeated at Cambridge 
that there were only three men on the 
electoral list who had ever heard of hira. 
(Laughter.) Russell reigned supreme as 
the king of the correspondents, and his 
graphic descriptions of Crimean and Indian 
warfare were familiar to us all. So many 
errors have been committed to-night by the 
speakers who have preceded me, you had 
better let me give a hasty glance at his 
career; first stating three distinct negatives. 
Russell is an Irishman, not an Englishman. 
(Hear, hear.) Russell was not the Times' 
correspondent in Italy, and you ought to 
know as well as I, that it was poor Bowlby 
and not Russell who succeeded Cook ia 
China. (Hear, hear.) Nobody seems to 
know whether Russell was born in 1816, or 
1821 ; but, graduating at Trinity, he com- 
menced writing for the Times in 1843. 
Living at a Sensation time, when O'Connell 
was the Sensation leader, Russell became 
the Sensation letter-writer, and, with the 
exception of the short period from 1845 to 
1847, when he was on the Chronicle, he lias 
been chief of the Times' staff. In 1850 he 
became a barrister, the literary dodge often 
practised to open the door to good society. 
(Oh !) The gentleman saj's oh ; but it is 
notorious that he never held a brief, wore a 
wig, or gave a legal opinion. (Hear, hear.) 
He did what Carter Hall and Make-Peace 
Thackeray did before him — paid the hundred 
pound barrister-license, to obtain the locus 
standi oi' the West End. In 1854 and 1855 
he was the tyrant of the army at the Crimea, 
and, so unfairly did he use the means at his 
command, there are many officers now in the 
British army who treat him with the scorn 
which he deserves. (Cries of no.) His 
attack upon the Commissary Department 
did more to prolong the contest than is gen- 
erally known. I was told, when at St. 
Petersburg after the war, that the Emperor 
received telegraphic dispatches from London 
as to the wretched conditions of the allied 
forces, as described by " our own corres- 
pondent," which made the Russians more 
vindictive and more determined, more obsti- 



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nate. and stimulated them to make greater 
exertions to pour down troops to the Crimea. 
(Hear, hear, and True.) England may 
thank Russell for the additions to many a 
Crimean graveyard, and many a noble home 
in England has been made sad by this reck- 
less trader in human reputation, who yester- 
day came sniveling like a whipped schoolboy 
before the British people, in a three-column 
attack upon the American Government, 
simply because that Government has en- 
forced its orders, not against Mr. Russell 
only, but against all the correspondents of 
the world, American as well as European. 
(Loud cheers.) France, he forgets to men- 
tion, was the dear ally of England in the 
Russian war, yet he was refused permission 
to enter the French camps, although the 
allied generals were acting in concert. 
(Applause.) The Emperor sent a special 
order prohibiting his entrance inside the 
ranks. It was enough to see the Times 
play into the bands of Russia, by slandering 
the English army, without libelling the 
French as well. President Lincoln has 
followed the action of some other distin- 
guished names. Did not Sir Charles Napier 
refuse to take a correspondent with him to 
the Baltic ? (Yes.) Did not the Duke of 
"Wellington prohibit correspondents follow- 
ing the army in the Peninsula? (Hear, and 
Yes.) Did he not say that correspondents 
ought all to be hanged who would comment 
upon a general's military plans ? Do you 
think that the British Government would 
allow any newspaper correspondent, in the 
employ of any other Government, to criticise 
any of the movements of the army on the 
field of battle? (No.) How strange that 
this same Russell should ask a favor of the 
President whom, a short time ago, he 
accused of manslaughter in hanging the 
slave-trader Gordon. But, to continue — in 
18.t6 he was sent to Moscow to paint the 
picture of Alexander's coronation, and 1 
"will do him the justice to say that he painted 
it well, (Cheers.) That year his college 
dubbed him LL.D. The next year he was 
in India, and, in 1858, established that 
lamentable failure, the Army and Navy 
Gazette. And now we come more directly 
to the question in debate. Was the President 
justified in his expulsion ? (Hear, hear.) 
To answer it, let me ask, are the American 
people justified in passing any laws that 
they may think proper, without consulting 
the London Times? (Hear, hear, and 
laughter.) Having passed an order cutting 
off all our own correspondents, I cannot 
understand upon what ground Mr. Russell 
should be an exception — (hear, hear, and a 
voice, " You allow the American corres- 
pondents to be there.") I tell you it is not 
true, unless you mean that every officer is a 
correspondent, and every soldier a letter- 
writer, proving that education in America 



is on the flood-tide of civilization. (Cheei-s.) 
In order to show you the contemptible part 
this wolf in sheep's clothing has played 
(dissent) let me trace his vulpecnlar course 
since he landed. Received at New York 
with open arms, introduced at our clubs, and 
in our families, he writes his first letter, and 
prints his first libel, declaring that there 
was no Union feeling, no Union sentiment, 
no Union army, in the North ; predicting 
the entire collapse of our Republic. He 
went to Washington, where doors opened 
wide again to give him welcome, and again 
he replied with another sneer against the 
Federal resources. He passed on to Char- 
leston, and there it was that he found 
the gentleman, the chivalrous officer, the 
anointed Carolinian ; and abolition Russell 
fell violently in love with Negro Slavery, 
and Southern brandy. (Oh ! and hear, hear.) 
From this point he wrote that republicanism 
was dead in the South — the Confederacy 
wanted a king — and the Prince of Wales 
was suggested. (Hear, hear.) That noble 
Prince, who a few months before had been 
insulted in Richmond, the only place where 
he was not well received in the Western 
world ! Acting on these letters and his 
confederate conspirator, Mr. Bunch, the 
Secession British consul at Charleston, Lord 
John Russell made his first false step in 
acknowledging the rebels as belligerants, 
and it is not the fault of these British spies 
that the Foreign Secretary did not acknowl- 
edge the Confederacy. (Hear.) Under the 
sacred cover of diplomatic letters, it is fair 
to presume that at this time he made his 
plans to furnish through the British despatch 
bags to the rebel generals the entire plans 
of the Northern army ; (Oh 1 and where's 
your proof?) as well as to keep Yancey and 
the British Government thoroughly posted, 
through the despatches of Lord Lyons to 
the Foreign Office ; acting the double part 
of a British informer and a rebel spy. (Dis- 
sent, and proof, proof.) You ask for proof 
— I refer you to the diplomatic correspond- 
ence, in the month of October, between Mr. 
Seward, Mr. Adams, and Lord Lyons — 
demanding the recall of Mr. Bunch, for 
sending rebel papers from the Southern 
leaders to their Commissioners here, through 
Lord Lyons' despatch bag and the Foreign 
Office. Mr. Seward having tripped up the 
British Government in this equivocal piece 
of diplomacy — (oh ! and hear, hear) — Lord 
John Russell afterwards sent his special 
messenger by every steamer to Washington, 
and it is a singular fact that Yancey was 
the first to obtain every infoimation on 
both sides of the line, the moment this 
arrangement ivas made; — (hear, hear) — • 
but, to go on, Russell was next at Fort 
Pickens, which he falsely predicted would 
soon be occupied by General Bragir ; but 
recent events have proved that although 



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General Bragg may be a good dog, General 
Holdfast is a better. (Laughter and cheers.) 
At New Orleans he commenced to be dis- 
gusted with the South, and, believing that 
he could reach the North before his letters 
returned, he began abusing those who had 
entertained him, and ridiculed the riff-raff 
that composed the Southern army. His 
picture, however, of the poverty of the Eng- 
lish wives and daughters, whose husbands 
and fathers had been impressed into the 
Confederate army, together with the several 
British subjects who were imprisoned at 
New Orleans, created no such horror in 
England as the arrest of one British subject 
would have done in the North— (hear, hear) 
— but let me hurry on. At Cairo he thanks 
his God that he had left the land of ruffians 
and gamblers, and was again under the Stai-s 
and Stripes. (Hear, hear.) Ilis letters 
having come back to America he accused 
the Southern post office of having tampered 
with his correspondence, forgetting that his 
employers in Printing-House Square are 
ever ready to cut a truth out of any letter, 
and insert a lie, when it answers their pur- 
pose. (Oh, shame.) Not entirely corrupt, 
still respecting the lessons of the Pilgrims, 
we still observe one of the good old Puritan 
customs of keeping the Sabbath holy. 
What must, then, be the disgust of the good 
people of Illinois to find this model Church- 
man out in the prairie with his dogs and 
gun, disturbing the peaceful services in the 
little village church on its border with the 
report of fire-arms. (Shame.) An ever- 
lasting disgrace upon the English people, as 
well as an insult to our own. (Hear, hear.) 
He was summoned to the police court, and 
out of respect to the church-going nation he 
represented, and as well as dis>;usted with 
his ignorance of our religious customs, he 
was discharged. (Hear, hear.) He returned 
to Washington in time to describe — as an 
eye-witness — the battle from which he ac- 
knowledges that he was six miles distant. 
(Laughter.) It has come to pass that he 
arrived in Washington some hours in ad- 
vance of the disorganized volunteers whom 
he ridicules, and carved his facts out of his 
imagination. He is a word-painter, and can 
paint a truth as well as a lie ; but his taste 
runs in the latter vein. (Oh!) Conse- 
quently, he sinks the truth whenever he can, 
so that he may the more eff"ectually float the 
lie with which he caters to the willing appe- 
tite of English Secession. (Where's your 
proof?) Mark some of his prophecies, and 
the proof shall be ample. Did he not say 
that Burnside's expedition would be a 
failure? (Hear, hear, and yes.) You know 
that it was a perfect success. (Applause.) 
Did he not say that we had no power of 
raising an army out of our volunteers? 
You know how false has been the assertion. 
(Hear, hear.) Did be not say that we had 



no rifles, no artillery, no officers, no gen- 
erals ? You know, gentlemen, that never 
before was an army so thoroughly equipped. 
(Hear, hear.) Did he not say that it was 
impossible to save the Border States? and 
yet Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and 
Maryland are all back again, while Virginia 
and North Carolina are knocking at the 
Union door. Did he not say that the rebel 
army would make a terrible fight at Man- 
assas? And yet, how rapidly they fled at 
the advance of McClellan! (Hear, hear.) 
Do you want more proof, gentlemen, of this 
miserable slanderer's libels ? Take Island 
No, 10. Did he not say that there would 
be no rebel resistance there? And yet, the 
cannon have been roaring there for weeks 
in front, while we cut a twelve-mile canal up 
to their back door, and bagged their entire 
army of six thousand men. Did he not say 
that the American people would not take up 
the first loan, and the second, and the third ? 
(Hear, hear.) Did he not say that our 
people were bankrupt, our Government 
insolvent, our Treasury empty ? Did he 
not say that Americans would not allow 
themselves to be taxed ? And yet, gentle- 
men, time has shown that he is not only a 
false prophet, but a systematic liar, (Dis- 
sent.) Gentlemen, you must excuse my bad 
French — (loud laughter) — while I continue 
my dissection of this libellous charletan 1 — 
the paid agent to misrepresent everything 
American. (A gentleman arose to say that 
Mr. Train's language was unparliamentary, 
and while the debate was quite free, the 
epithets used and bitterness displayed by 
Mr. Train were quite uncalled for.) Mr. 
Train continued, much excited : You know, 
gentlemen, that I usually express my own 
thoughts — not yours. My words are per- 
cussion caps, not flint locks ; and I told you 
on the start that I should bring revolvers to 
bear against Mr. Russell and the speakers 
who defend him, if they put any more fire- 
crackers in my breeches. (Loud laughter, 
and hear, hear.) To continue: as Mr. 
Russell's letters returned to America, our 
independent press soon discovered, instead 
of an able-bodied, healthy argument, noth- 
ing but false hair, false teeth, dyed whiskers, 
a glass eye, and a wooden leg; in other 
words, a stereotyped sham instead of a fine 
specimen of English honesty. It will be 
remembered that, some time ago, corres- 
pondents were prohibited from following the 
army ; this was followed up by the Govern- 
ment seizure of the telegraph offices. Here 
was discovered a fine nest of traitors, and who 
do you suppose was the chief robber in the 
band? Why, William Howard Russell, the 
reliable correspondent of the London Times! 
(Hear, hear, and Oh !) The mystery was at 
last solved, the secret came out, and the 
hostility of the Times — the Secession spirit 
of the Government — was explained ; and the 



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gigantic plot discovered, wliich already lias 
filled many a AVestern graveyard, and has 
mined, is ruining, and will continue to rain, 
thousands in England ! The time has 
arrived for the world to understand that 
the whole action of the Times, through its 
leaders and its correspondents, has been to 
weigh golden sovereigns in the scale against 
human life and human misery. Somebody 
has made millions — rumor points to Roths- 
child and some distinguished names in 
political life, as the accomplices of the 
Times, in this nefarious plot to involve the 
English and Americans in an inhuman war, 
that they might make a few more hundred 
thousands in the Stock Exchange. (Shame, 
and a voice, "You have no right to make 
such a statement without proof." Cries of 
order.) Unfortunately, I have too much 
proof. Among the despatches seized by 
the Government, this one was discovered : 

" Washington, Dec. 27tli, half-past two, 
P. M.— From W. H. Russell to Samuel 
Ward, New York Hotel. Act on this tele- 
gram as ihotigh you heard good neios for 
you and me." (Hear, hear.) 

This, you remember, was the crisis of the 
Trent affair. Russell had just obtained the 
important scent from Lord Lyons, that the 
rebel commissioners would be given up, and 
sent his orders to purchase, right and left, 
all kind of stocks in the New York market, 
(shame,) and to make the speculation sure, 
he wrote a letter to the Times that night, to 
go by the next day's steamer, saying that he 
knew Mason and Slidell not only would not 
be given up, (shame,) but that there was 
every prospect of immediate war. (Shame.) 
Now, I maintain that such acts are sufficient 
to condemn him at the tribunal of English 
public opinion, and to fasten upon the Times 
the entire responsibility of the terrible dis- 
tress that now exists in the manufacturing 
districts, (hear, hear,) and now agitates the 
mind of the London laborer and the London 
poor. It is well known that important dis- 
patches were suppressed by your govern- 
ment for three weeks, and that important 
operations took place upon the stock ex- 
change through Rothschilds' broker. Read 
the weak reply of the Morning Post to the 
Morning Star. It is also rumored that 
Mr. Peabody made, during these memorable 
three weeks, by purchasing American secu- 
rities, twice as much as he has recently paid 
for a leader in the Times. Mr. Peabody 
has, however, done one act, I understand, 
for which I forgive him in part, for being so 
bad a Union man and so good a Secession- 
ist. Some years ago, he was black-balled 
at the Reform Club ; as it is notorious in 
this country that you can get any thing by 
paying for it, no one was surprised to hear, 
since his munificent donation, that the Re- 
form Club had made him an honorary mem- 



ber. It is also stated that, in this case, Mr. 
Peabody has proved himself too much of an 
i American to accept it. (Hear.) In con- 
clusion, I may mention the meanest and the 
last act of Mr. Russell's contemptible course 
in America. 

Well knowing the order of the Depart- 
ment prohibiting all correspondents from 
following the army, he sneaked on board the 
Government transport under the quasi pro- 
tection of his American friend. General 
McClellan ; and then it was that the Secre- 
tary was obliged to re-issue the order, never 
for a moment supposing that any English gen- 
tleman would have done so mean a thing. The 
impudence of the man out-Russells Russell. 
'JMiink of him writing to the Secretary of 
War to know if he (the Secretary) really 
meant to act on the order that he (the Sec- 
retary) issued ! following it up with an auda- 
city almost beyond belief, by writing to the 
President to know if he permitted his Sec- 
retary of War to take any. such action ! To 
show you the impertinence of the thing, let 
me suppose a case. Ireland has seceded; I 
arrive in London as the correspondent of the 
New York Herald; having met Lord Clyde 
in the Crimea, I obtained permission to ac- 
company him to Ireland, having first written 
my letters to the Herald, ridiculing the Eng- 
lish army, English generals, and English 
ministers, (hear, hear,) proving beyond a 
doubt bow impossible it was for England to 
recover Ireland. At this moment, these let- 
ters having returned to England, the Secre- 
tary of War calls Lord Clyde's attention to 
an order prohibiting correspondents from 
joining the army. Imagine my indignantly 
waiting upon Lord Palmerston to know if 
he meant to act on the army order ; and 
then, if you can, imagine my having the 
audacity to have penetrated the gloom of 
Osborne, to see if some higher power could 
not make the Premier rescind his instruc- 
tions. (Hear, hear.) I think, gentlemen, 
I have succeeded in defending the Adminis- 
tration and 31r. Stanton. (Hear, hear.) 

Russell went to America an Abolitionist ; 
he came back, as most Englishmen do, a 
pro-slavery man. He went to America as a 
gentleman : he returned, after outraging all 
the rules of good society, to chuckle with his 
employers over the fortunes that had been 
made over this stock-jobbing operation. I 
called him a robber; is it not robbery to de- 
prive widows und orphans, by frightening 
them into selling their stocks at ruinous 
prices? Is it not villainy to paint a lie, so 
that it shall resemble truth? Is it not mur- 
der so to disseminate these lies, as to pro- 
long a contest at the cost of thousands of 
lives? Is it not damnable to si)ecHlate in 
human flesh, placing pounds in the scale 
against human life? Is it not criminal, by 
the repetition of continued falsehoods, to 
create an animosity between two people, that 



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it may be difficult to allay ? He said our 
mob would not give up Mason and Slidel! ; 
but when you know he said it in order to 
speculate upon the stock exchange, can you 
see what reliance could have been placed 
upon the report of the battles that are now 
taking place. He went to America bloated 
with the conceit of his own importance. The 
American journalists have tapped him, and 
his sudden collapse is a well-merited rebuke 
to his employers. Under the impulse of 
champagne and good brandy, he can paint a 
battle scene ; but how shallow, aside from 
this, how feeble his correspondence gener- 
ally appears. De Tocqueville visited Ame- 
rica, and wrote a searching analysis of our 
institutions. Russell has had ample time to 
do the same; but, has he done so? No. 
"^Vhat has he told the English people of our 
enormous resources ? our gigantic energy ? 
our terrible resolution ? VV hat has he said 
about our progressive agriculture ? our in- 



creasing manufacturing strength ? Where 
has he described our progress in ship-builJ- 
ing, and in railways, and in telegraphs? 
What has he told the English people of our 
educational systems, our common schools, 
and our colleges? What essays has he writ- 
ten, analyzing our social and political life ? 
Pray, in what respect has he followed the 
noble example of De Tocqueville, in giving 
Europe a philosophical treatise on republi 
can institutions? (Hear, hear.) Gentle- 
men, I have finished. In sitting down, let 
me say, that had I been in Washington, I 
would have allowed him to have followed 
the army, (cheers,) in order to show how 
little we cared for his continued slanders. 
(Oh, hear, hear.) But I think I have said 
enough to make you admit that President 
Lincoln was quite justified in not entirely 
consulting William Howard Russell as to 
the policy of the more or less United States 
of America. (Loud cheers.) 



GEO. FKA^CIS TRAIN'S CASTIGATIOX OF LORD BROUGHAM. 

TRAIN'S BOLD EXPOSURE OF THE WHOLESALE DEBAU- 
CHERIES OF THE DERBY DAY. 

-- IFrom the Londo7i American of June 11, 1862.] 



Our Hamburg correspondent, some time 
ago, alluded to Mr. Train as the indefati- 
gable Train. If industry, application, and 
study indicate the title, Mr. Train has cer- 
tainly earned it. He lectures nearly every 
night to large audiences, and all for chari- 
table institutions. On Thursday evening he 
lectured on " Travel, the Royal Road to 
Knowledge," at Camberwell Hall, for the 
benefit of the Milton Society for the Blind. 
On Friday evening, at St. Mary's Church, 
the Rev. Mr. Smith in the chair, for the 
benefit of the Ragged School — on " Educa- 
tion and Character in many Nations." Last 
night, he spoke on " Temperance," to the 
working-classes, at the Arnold Place Hall, 
Dockhead. 

Mr. Train is so widely known in England, 
his name gives him filled rooms, and enables 
him to add to the funds of many worthy 
charities. His services are all gratuitous. 
He never lectures for money, and the high 
moral tone of his lectures has added to his 
fame. We have been fearful that a man 
possessing such wide and general information 
would sometimes express too strong opinions 
for these columns, but we have never been 
more pleased than to see him come out as 
he did on Saturday night, before a crowded 
hall, as a moralist and reformer. We advise 



him to stick to this platform— preach tem- 
perance, virtue, morality — and there will be 
no position he may not aspire to in his native 
land. 

Train's scorching rebuke to Lord Broug- 
ham is well timed, and his terrible exposure 
of the well-known vices of the Derby, was as 
true as it was bold. A dozen speakers had 
eulogized his lordship's speech at the Social 
Science Convention, and each gave a glow- 
ing description of their househeld god, the 
Derby. Mr. Train did not intend to speak, 
but the audience refused to hear the other 
debaters who were on their feet. 

Mr. Train : — I never refuse a challenge 
fi-om any source — (hear) — much more when 
so personal as this has been to-night. I am 
not in speaking mood. I came in too late. 
I require some strong libel upon America to 
bring me out. (Cheers.) I confess myself 
better in defence than in attack, but as 1 see 
a breach in the rampart I will give you a 
taste of the latter. (Hear and applause.) 
Mr. Warwick, while speaking on the late 
Ministerial victory, said her Majesty's Gov- 
ernment could not exist without an honor- 
able Opposition. (Hear.) As I do not 
occupy the Ministerial benches, I will play 
the Disraeli of to-night's debate— (hear) — 
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England worships many gods, but none more 
than Lord Brougham — (cheers) — and the 
Derby-day. (Cheers and laughter.) The 
fulsome adulation whicdi you have lavished 
on Lord Brougham to-night is as ill-timed 
as the worship you bestow upon the Derby- 
day. (Oh!) Lord Brougham is the most 
overrated man in Europe ! (Cries of No, 
no, and hear.) Brougham the Great has 
become Brougham the Little. The people's 
champion has sunk into the advocate of the 
aristocracy. (Oh, and derisive cheers.) The 
once pre-eminent lawyer has changed into 
the sychophantic Lord. His speeches twenty, 
thirty, and forty years since showed un- 
doubted intellectual vigor — (cheers) — but his 
Social Science platitudes are as barren of 
ideas as they are replete with vanity. (Oh, 
and hear.) On three occasions I have 
waded through the many-columned essays 
which the Times records under the endorse- 
ment of a fulsome leader — and each time I 
returned my note-book to my pocket without 
gaining a point worthy of record. (Oh, and 
bosh.) Any schoolmaster would give you a 
better essay in a day's notice — but any 
schoolmaster could not get the essay into 
the Times. (Hear.) The fact is. Lord 
Brougham is a good illustration of wisdom 
gone to seed. (Laughter.) He wrote him- 
self out years ago, and talked himself out 
before I was a schoolboy. His range of 
thought is limited — his style is stiff — his 
mannerisms are painful. (Hear.) He is an 
intellectual cucumber gone to seed — too ripe 
for our age — we liked him better when he 
was green — (laughter) — England worships 
him for what he has been — his Social Science 
Congress is the weakness of his dotage — a 
mutual admiration society, of which he is the 
mutual admiration — the sun surrounded by 
innumerable mutual admiration satelites. 
(Oh, and hear.) The old, You-tickle-me- 
aud-I-will-tickle-you system. (Hear and 
laughter.) You do these things well in 
England. Lord Brougham was the associ- 
ate of Wilberforce, Buxton, Stephen, Clark- 
son, and Zachary Macaulay. In the great 
abolition scheme — (loud cheers) — he was in 
at the birth — and was alive at the death — to 
graduate as a worshipper of treason — (oh) 
— a friend of the slave-owner — (no) — a hater 
of America — (no) — and has been guilty of 
preaching Secession even in the House of 
Lords. (Cries of no — and a voice, "That 
accounts for Mr. Train's attack.") You say 
no — and yet you cannot have forgotten his 
speech a few nights since to the peers, when 
speaking of Mr. Seward's clever treaty on 
the slave trade, he spoke of it as a treaty 
made with the Northern Government. (Hear, 
hear.) What does that convey? why — that 
you have already acknowledged the Southern 
Confederacy, and the House of Lords is in 
communication with the abolition Broug- 
ham's personal friends, the negro-breeding 



traitors. Mason and Slidell. (Oh, and cheers.) 
Treaty tvith the Northern Government ! 
The insult is palpable — and the more so 
because made in the House of Lords. The 
Treaty is with the United States of America 
— (cheers) — as a whole, not as a part. Mr. 
Adams is our Minister, not Mr. Mason. 
(Hear. AVho doubts that Lord Brougham's 
intellectual power is on the wane when he 
makes such a mistake. Two years ago he 
insulted Mr. Dallas, in the presence of the 
Prince Consort, by a personal allusion to 
the black delegate who was present at the 
Congress. (Hear.) True he called to 
apologize, but our Minister refused to see 
the old libeller of our people. Only two 
years ago he insulted the American people 
because of slavery — and now insults them 
again for trying to abolish it. (Hear, and 
" Shame.") 

It is high time that Lord Brougham was 
laid upon the shelf. His time has past. Lord 
Brougham, the Social Science toady of the 
Peers, is no longer the orfce beloved Henry 
Brougham of the people. (Cheers, and 
dissent.) There goes Brougham's carriage, 
said a noble Lord to Sydney Smith. You 
see the B. outside. Yes, replied the wit, 
but there is a wasp within. (Laughter.) 
Were the dean alive to-day how quick he 
would observe that the great Eeformer had 
given up Eeform — that the leading Liberal 
was no longer the advocate of liberal ideas 
— in short that the wasp had lost its sting. 
(Applause.) Mr. O'Brien asked. What is 
conservatism ? Shall I describe it ? (Yes.) 
Well — then conservatism is old monarchies 
— old nations — old customs — old men and 
Lord Brougham. (Laughter.) Conserva- 
tism is the great flat stone upon the green 
sward. Dig it up and what do you see ? — 
serpents — lizards running to their holes — 
huge bugs frightened at the daylight — spiders 
— and cold clammy worms gathering them- 
selves together— and all kinds of unclean 
things. (Hear.) Remove the stone — cart 
it away. Let the sunshine of progress fall 
upon the spot — and pass that way the next 
year, and you will behold a sight to gladden 
the eyes of man — beautiful grasses have 
sprung up— and delicate flowers have bloomed 
there, and all is fresh with purity and joy. 
(Loud cheers.) Conservatism, gentlemen, is 
the stone. Progress is its removal. (Cheers,) 
The one represents the loathsome insects 
that sleep in the darkness— the other the 
buds and flowers that open their leaves in 
the sunlight. (Loud cheers.) Yes, Conser- 
vatism bears the same relation to Toryism 
that the Pusoyite does to the Catholic. The 
one is a eunicli — the other an entire man. 
(Oh, and laughter.) Having taken down 
from his niche in the altar of your worship 
one of your household gods, I now come to 
the other. All the speeches to-night were 
eloquent on the Derby day — (cheers) — and 



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the last debatei' said it was a sight that 
would make even Mr. Train delighted with 
our institutions. Stimulated by your cheers, 
he went on to say that there 1 could read 
the Constitution of England. There, said 
he, you see this great empire, and concluded 
by representing the Derby day as a picture 
of England's Civil Rights and Eeligious 
Liberties. (Cheers.) It may seem unkind 
for me to disturb the scene. You may think 
it ungenerous for me to destroy the picture ; 
but I may do good by telling the truth (hear) 
— although it may meet with strong opposi- 
tion. If I come out taught as a Reformer, 
you must not censure me. (Hear.) If I 
speak as a moralist, you must listen with re- 
spect, (Hear.) You assent. (Yes.) Then 
let me tell you that the Derby day is the 
great charnel house of crime, where the 
noble and the serf meet on equality the 
gambler, the courtezan, and the horse thief. 
(Cries of "Libel" — "Insult to England" — 
"Bosh," and derisive cheers.) As Hamlet 
remarks to Laei'te's, a palpable hit. (Hear.) 
You seem offended. You forget that I am 
on the opposition benches. (Hear.) That 
you repeatedly called upon me before I rose 
to speak. (Hear, and "That's so.") You 
like the truth — you do not wish to be Bar- 
numized — you cannot say that I flatter or 
fawn upon you for my own benefit — and in 
this age of toadyism and suobism you ought 
to appreciate a man who dares to speak the 
truth — (cheers) — although at the risk of 
losing all his popularity. (Cheers,) I say 
that the Derby is a disgrace to England — a 
blot upon the moral character of the English 
people — (oh) — and if that day represents 
civil liberty and religious freedom, I thank 
God that America has not arrived at that 
pitch of Christian civilization. (Oh, and 
interruption, one or two gentlemen leaving 
the hall, saying they were a lot of snobs to 
listen to such abuse.) Order being restored, 
Mr. Train said — I see I must prove my case, 
point by point. (Hear.) I have made a 
bold assertion, and you call upon me to prove 
it. (Hear.) I will do it to your entire satis- 
faction. (Cheers and laughter.) To com- 
mence. The Derby is the delight of the 
ruin-seller, the hter-shop, and the gin palace. 
Intemperance that day holds his Bacchana- 
lian court — Champagne on the grand stand 
for the noble — rum and sherry, and gin, in 
the court below for the Traviatas, and beer 
and porter and foul mixtures for the great 
unwashed. (Laughter.) The costermonger 
gets drunk for a shilling, and the noble for a 
pound. Drunkenness is the great feature 
of the Derby day — Soberness would be 
sneered at — drink deep, drink long, drink 
all the time. Ask Fortnum and Mason what 
they put in the hampers to take away men's 
senses. Look at the merchant, the broker, 
and the banker the day after the Derby. 
Those heavy eye-balls, with red borders, that 



dark ridge under the eyelash, that yellow- 
tinged complexion and listless gait, all be- 
token a day of dissipation at the Derby, and 
a night of debauchery at Cremorne. (Oh, 
and laughter.) The Derby is the grand 
annual muster of the Blackleg — the Burg- 
lar—and the Gambler! (Hear.) There 
they meet the Lords of England and the 
Members of the House of Commons. Equality 
— Fraternity — Liberty. Betting is contagi- 
ous. The General sets the example to those 
in the ranks. The Priest bets his bottle of 
wine, and the ladies bet gloves. Everybody 
gambles at the Derby. The passions are 
excited. The mind is disordered. Impure 
thoughts enter the brain. Vice is a terrible 
contagion. Free Trade in gambling under- 
mines morality, and schools industry to be 
the first victim for the Penitentiary. I do 
not think that assembling with blacklegs, 
jDimps and scamps, tends to elevate the mind 
or improve the morals of man. (Hear, and 
applause.) The Derby is not a day of prayer 
and fasting ; but the tongue is loose and vul- 
garity is the order of the hour. Profanity 
is on the increase, vulgarity gains new disci- 
ples on the Derby. I was taught that pro- 
fane swearing was the resort of the vulgar. 
(Hear, and oh.) The gentleman may dissent 
— but the man who cannot endorse his opi- 
nion without the obscene introduction of 
some loud oath deserves the pity of all good 
men. (Hear.) It is a vile habit — coarse 
and plebeian. There are two distinct marks 
of the true gentleman. He never tells a lie 
or takes the name of God in vain. (Hear, 
hear.) 

It chills my heart to hear the West Supreme 
Ru'lely appealed to upou every trifiiug theme, 
Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise, 
To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise, 
You would not swear upon a bed of death, 
Kepent! your Maker now may stop your breath. 

[Applause.) 
The Derby Day is the Baden Baden of 
the Rouge et Noir. Gambling is the rule 
— all classes bet- — the servant copies the 
master — men lose who can little aS"ord it. 
Gaming is a terrible vice — it ruins the win- 
ner as well as the loser. What excitement 
is the most intense? asked the Regent. — 
Winning at cards, replied Fox. — What 
next ? — Losing. The Derby is covered with 
giimblers. Thimble-rigging, cock-fighting, 
card betting, horse racing, fortune telling, 
penny tossing. Each sharper bent on his 
prey. The gamester is a lost man, and the 
Derby is his lair. Another thought. The 
Derby is a day of unbridled license. Th^ 
Christian preacher has no voice at the Derby. 
Slang phrases are the fashion. The chaff of 
the Derby is an institution — (hear and 
cheers) — but it is a vulgar, low, disgusting 
institution. (Oh, and hisses.) The ride 
home is a scene of danger — coats torn — 
hats lost — carriages broken, and life risked 
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your head. Your eyes are liable to be put 
out at any moment. The ladies in your 
carriane may be your sisters — your wives — 
your dauphters. Never mind it; they must 
listen and blush not, for it is the Derby-day. 
The young men with their four-in-hand 
throw dolls and wooden babies into their 
laps — (laughter) — the very idea conveys an 
immoral thought — the conception is obscene. 
Who introduced this doll-throwing custom ? 
Of course, it was the libertine — the seducer. 
The act is often accompanied with loud 
jests. 

Immodest words admit of no defence, 
For want of decency is want of sense! 

Til e Derby is th e hen efit day of the Slioulder 
hitter and the Pugilist. The rowdy scenes 
— the brutal contests — the bloody fights on 
the grounds are only surpassed in debauch- 
ery by what take place on the return from 
the races. The drunken drivers rush madly 
along the streets, and human limbs and 
human life are risked on all sides. Go into 
the hospitals the next day and make a note 
of the broken arms — the burned bodies and 
disfigured faces you see there. Cruelty to 
man succeeds cruelty to horses — Miss 
Todd's coachman must not punish his horse 
— but the jockey of the Earl-of Essex, must 
not be questioned when driving his spurs 
deep into the favorite's sides. (Hear, hear.) 
Again, the extravagance of the Derby is 
enough to condemn it. How many go there 
that can little afford it ? (That's so.) How 
many young men have risked and lost — and 
their employers must suffer until the clerk 
turns out a Robson — a Redpath — or a Pul- 
linger ! (Cheers.) Perhaps he is a married 
man with grown-up daughters and all de- 
pendent upon his hard-earned salary. He 
bets — he loses — he becomes mad — he looks 
over the bridge— his courage fails— he stops a 
moment— hesitates— then kneels down before 
the heavily-laden coal cart — puts his head de- 
liberately under the great wheel and his 
head is crushed to atoms ! He died through 
losses on the Derby I Pollok speaks words 
of fire of the suicide — who with his own 
hands opened the portals of eternity and 
sooner than the devils hoped arrived in hell ! 
(Sensation.) The Derby is the Stock Ex- 
change of horse thieves. (Oh.) That day 
they revel in their villanies. They come 
from all parts of these islands to carry on 
their infamous traSic on the Derby — why is 
it that men consider dishonesty a virtue 
when they sell a horse ? (Laughter.) The 
Jew and Gentile — the Arab and the Hindoo 
— the gentleman and the blackleg — the 
English lord and the Irish peasant, are all 
the same when dealing in horse-flesh ! The 
Quaker said his horse had no faults and 
would stick to a hill. "Will he draw?" 
" Yes, thee would be delighted to see him 
draw !" Of course the animal turned out to 
be a jibber — as well as blind ! — " That," said 



the Quaker, "is his misfortune notliis fault." 
(Laughter.) The Parson will let the pur- 
chaser find out the spavin ; the philanthro- 
pist will not tell you of the lameness — the 
Christian lady will conceal the vice of the 
beast she offers for sale — and the Christian 
gentleman delights in having his holiday 
sport at the Derby! — The Derby is the 
Kate Hamilton's of the Cyprians! Here 
Cyprians flaunt their silks and rustle their 
satins, and make their coarse jests and loud 
observations in the presence of the fairest, 
the highest, and the most virtuous ladies of 
England. Which is the lady, and which the 
Cyprian, asks the stranger? Really, who 
can tell. (Hear.) 

Even Frith, in his picture of the Derby 
Day, has the portraits of some celebrated 
prostitutes to make it life-like. So I am 
told. What a place to take our wives and 
daughters.! Would you introduce them at 
the Holborn Casino ? Would you take 
them to dance the Ijancers at the Argyle 
Rooms? (No.) Would you go with them 
to the Piccadilly Saloon, or the Portland 
Rooms, or Cadwell's and drive them twice 
a-week to Cremorue ? Most assuredly, no ! 
Few married men would be so bold. Yet 
what they shun in the haunts of vice in 
London they court in broad daylight at the 
Derby ! (True) They are horrified at vice 
and the prostitution when retailed, but are 
its noblest patrons when wholesaled. All 
that is bad comes together at the Derby. 
That day the Argyle Magdalens are in their 
champagne robes. That day the casino 
empties its Camilles into the Derby, That 
day Kate Hamilton sits supreme upon her 
throne. That day the Hay-market removes 
its entire population to the Derby — the 
great rendezvous of the Concubine, and the 
Stock Exchange of the Harlot. (Ironical 
cheers.) That day bad women meet by 
appointment bad men, and virtue is scoffed 
at on the great charnel bourse of the Court- 
ezan. Here female beauty means loss of 
honor, of virtue, and of moral life. And yet 
knowing these things. Englishmen hesitate 
not to introduce their fauiilies into such 
haunts of iniquity. Why ? Simply because 
it is fashionable. (Hear.) The Lords are 
there as well as the Commons. Fashion is 
a tyrant. A Queen once introduced large 
sleeves to cover her broken arm. A Queen 
gave the world corsets to hide her ugly form. 
A Queen suggested long dresses because 
her feet were large, and an empress invented 
crinoline when coming events cast their 
shadows before. (Laughter.) So fashion 
makes immorality popular. Great Ladies 
countenance the Derby, and who dares 
protest ? The Bishop of Oxford ? No ! 
Lord Brougham? No! His Social Sci- 
ence would not interfere with the Social evil 
which he thinks is a Social necessity. 
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bury, and Durham? Do they object. Does 
the Duchess of Sutherland aud the fair 
peeresses of England endorse the horrid 
debaucheries of the Derby day ? I have 
never seen their protest, although they 
found time to appeal to the American ladies 
about the immorality of slavery. (Applause) 
If evil communications currupt good manners 
the evil of the Derby must breed foul 
curruption. If ladies are known by the 
company they keep, the Derby is not the 
place for modesty and purity. How the 
young girl must shrink in the presence of 
her lover, when listening from her elegant 
brougham on the hill to the obscene songs 
and conversation of the gipsy women, who 
perhaps have been paid to entertain the 
mistress of the young gentleman in the 
adjoining carriage. (Hear.) All this is 
allowed on the Derby day. The Peers 
approve it — the judges award it — and no 
Gumming — no Newman Hall — -no Spurgeon 
— no Lord Shaftesbury, raise their voices 
against the wholesale immoralities of the 
Derby Day ! Oh, no ! That would be tin- 
English. (Laughter.) My painting is com- 
pleted, my argument is closed. I was chal- 
lenged, Mr. Grand. I accepted. I have fought 
and I ask you, sir, who is the dead man? 
(Laughter.) The honorable speaker pointed 
to the Derby, where I might witness Givil 



Right and Religious Freedom — the great 
Constitutional Charter of your race. After 
the scenes I have painted, I hope, for the 
sake of Virtue, Morality, and Religion, that 
argument will never be advanced again. 
I maintain I have proved three distinct 
propositions. The Derby Day is the Stock 
Exchange of Pugilism — the Mecca of the 
Horse Thief — the Bourse of the Gambler — 
the Rendezvous of the Blackleg — the Rum- 
shop of the Drunkard— the Central Depot 
where the villanies of the Turf are matured 
— and the Grand Bazaar of the Gentleman 

Better the Vulgar Card-player the 

elegant Adulterer — (oh, and cheers) — the 
profligate Roue — the hardened Gipsy — and 
the aristocratic Blackguard ! Here the frail 
women hold their levees, who are as corrupt 
in body as they are in mind, whose coarse 
oaths in their drunken orgies sound upon 
the ear like the Death Rattle of Remorse. 
(Loi'd i-oplause.) Virtue to the woman is 
what tne grain is to the straw — take it away 
and man and beast tread it under foot. 
(Loud Cheers.) 

Mr. Train sat down amid congratulations 
on all sides. He fairly changed his oppo- 
nents into admirers by the power of his 
morality and the crushing logic of his 
eloquence. 



GEORGE FRAKCIS TRAL\'S GREAT SPEECH 01 MEXICO. 

THE MONROE DOCTRINE— THE SECRET TREATY— THE CONVEN- 
TION AND THE QUARREL— ENGLAND A FILLIBUSTER— 
AMERICA'S FOUR CARDINAL VIRTUES— TEXAS 
AND THE MEXICAN WAR— MEXICO 
BEFORE THE REPUBLIC. 



[From the London American of May 28, 1862.] 



WERE ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND SPAIN JUSTIFIED 
IN THEIR EXPEDITION AGAINST MEXICO ? 

The approaching settlement of the Amer- 
ican question makes more prominent the 
Mexican embroglio. England has backed 
out — so has Spain — while France is left to 
take the glory or the shame of this barefaced 
piratical expedition. We are not surprised 
to see the Times and Saturday Revieio 
cheering on the Emperor to his certain ruin. 
England's affection for France is undoubted. 
Mr. Train has fairly exhausted the subject 
in the Debate on Monday evening at St. 
Paul's Discussion Hall in Ludgate-hill — 
AVere England, France, and Spain justi- 
fied IN THEIR Expedition against Mexico? 



Mr. Train opened in the negative, and the 
audience became most impatient under his 
scorching sarcasms. The importance of the 
speech warrants the space it occupies. He 
gives a digest of Mexican history, introduces 
all the points, and has fairly bayoneted Eng- 
land while holding the Monitor up to 
France. 

Mr. Train (who had been detained at an- 
other large meeting where he was advertised 
to speak) commenced about nine o'clock, 
and spoke for an hour and a half amid 
considerable interruption, one man having 
said it was a lie. Mr. Train demanded that 
he should retract the unparliamentary ex- 
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MEXICO BEFORE THE REPUBLIC. 

Mr. Train: Mexico is tlie India of the 
M'est! While En^hmd was sowing the seeds 
of empire in the east, Spain was equally 
active in the west. But while England 
holds her Indian empire still, Spain lost her 
foothold on the mainland of the western 
continent and planted her flag upon an 
island where it still floats above the half- 
caste and the Castilian. What Java is to 
the Dutch, Cuba is to Spain. These islands 
both pay. Mexico is no longer Spanish. 
The blood thrills as we repaint the rise and 
fall of the Mexican empire. How vivid the 
blind historian Prescott paints the picture. 
(Applause.) The first conquest of Mexico 
under Cortez was no more brilliant than 
the second conquest of Mexico under Scott. 
(Cheers.) The third conquest of Mexico 
under Napoleon is another thing. (Hear.) 
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 
belong to Europe to act out the tragedy of 
kings — the drama of Conquest, of Rapine, 
and of Bloodshed. (Oh, and "That's so.") 
Then the sword was mightier than the ship. 
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 
were reserved for America to act out the 
drama of Self-reliance — and to introduce the 
age of republics — Comnierce and Liberty. 
(Cheers.) Never before, perhaps, in the 
history of the world were such ideas placed 
before so many minds. Crowd the world's 
changes into a paragraph. The cities that 
stud the great rivers in all lands are agi- 
tated as they have never been before. 
(Hear.) Look at Asia. Note the millions 
who fight hand to hand on the banks of the 
Yang-tze-kiang. Tai-ping-nang for fifteen 
years has demonstrated that England is not 
the only Brigand at large. (Oh, and dissent.) 
The Volga's banks are now covered with 
Free men where Serfs once were the fea- 
tures of the country. Armed men are on 
the Mincio — distrust is on the Danube — 
fear reigns supreme upon the Tiber — (hear) 
— uncertainty hangs over the Seine — great 
changes will shortly take place on the banks 
of the Thames — distress and starvation give 
special interest to the banks of the Mersey 
— while the great rivers of America have 
been flowing with the blood of her children. 
The Ohio and the Mississippi will now 
become the scene of romance and of history. 
(Applause.) 'J'he Tennessee, the Potomac, 
the Shenandoah, and the James Rivers are 
already full of historical memories ! The 
old world's novelists had made bankrupt its 
resources. The new world will now be the 
theme of the poet, the dramatist, and the 
historian, (Cheers.) Turning away from 
Asiatic and European life, leaving the great 
Union army of my own fair land to work out 
its country's destinies — (cheers) — I come 
back again to Mexico, the land of Ferdinand 
and Isabella, of Hernando Cortez and Win- 



field Scott — (hear) — the Conquestadores of 
the Mexican Armies. Revolution was all 
the fashion when this century commenced. 
America had forced England into respect, 
and the American Revolution foreshadowed 
and stimulated the Revolution of France, 
which gave the world a Bonaparte. France 
found in him an Emperor, but England 
caught a Tartar in Napoleon. (Hear, hear.) 

MEXICO AFTER THE REPUBLIC. 

Ten years of brigandage prepared Mexico 
for a change of Government. The Revolu- 
tion of 1 810, the Spanish fought the half- 
caste. It was not quelled before 1820, and 
the empire of Iturbide terminated in the 
Republic. The Federal Government was 
organized October 4, 1824, and Augustin I. 
was no more. Spain was bowed out of 
Mexico with the fall of San Juan de Ulloa 
in 1825. Mexico copied America — the one 
Constitution was modeled on the other. 
The same right of States— of Representa- 
tion — of Executive. There was no slave 
property — no jealousy of South against 
North — and no room for Secession. Read 
Ludlow in Sampson Low's Exchange. Mex- 
ico, however, did for the Catholic religion 
what ICngland does for the Protestant. 
Here Mexico did not copy America — our 
Constitution gave Free Trade to Religion — 
(hear, hear) — while the Mexicans introduced 
protection by giving the Religion to the 
Catholics. Mexico ! Spain's child in Histo- 
ry — Italy's child in Religion — but America's 
child in Politics — was a bad pupil. The 
American Fourth of July was a different 
thing from the Mexican \^tli of September. 
(Hear.) "While America has had her six- 
teen Presidents in her seventy-two years, 
Mexico has had but two, Herrera and 
Victoria, who acted out their four years. 
America postponed her Revolution to finish 
it up in a year — (cheers) — while Mexico 
diluted her Revolution by having it all the 
time — (laughter) — during its forty years of 
government-making. The first President 
was named after your Queen — or rather 
befoi'e. General Victoria lived it out — 
General Guerrero having put down the 
Rebellion. Then came Gomez Pedraza — 
at once succeeded by Gen. Guerrero (1828 
and 1829). Bustamente then bursts up 
Guerrero, and shoots him. (Hear.) Pe- 
draza comes back — when lo, the curtain 
rises and the man, old Houston, treads — 
(laughter) — steps upon the stage. Santa 
Anna knocks Bustamente over — kicks Pe- 
draza out — introduces Plan of Toluca — 
abolishes Federal Constitution, and raises 
the wind generally. (Laughter.) This was 
just after I was born (1833); as usual a 
Yankee steps in and hopes he don't intrude. 
(Laughter.) Moses Austin, in 1821, got 
liis grant of land in Texas, and the 300 
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ulous state. Place a coffee boy in that 
place noted more for the warmth of its 
temperature than the moral of its inhabi- 
tants — (cheers and laughter) — and a Yankee 
will find it. (Applause.) That has become 
an American proverb. Santa Anna tried 
to push Moses out of the buUrushes— 
(laughter) — in Texas, but Moses wouldn't 
go. (Laughter.) His sou Stephen Austin 
was caught — imprisoned — was released — 
became chief of the Texans — won the battles 
of Gonzales, Goliard, and Bexar. Santa 
Anna was enraged, took the field in person, 
recaptured Bexar, poignarded the garrison 
in true Mexican style — (hear, hear) — and 
was himself defeated and captured (April 
21, 1836) by an army not half so large as his 
forces. Moses and Son, you observe, in 
Texas still kept up their ancient fame ! 
(Laughter.) Bustamente came back from 
France (1837) and took the presidential 
chair. This was the time that old Spain 
recognized the Republic of Mexico. Now 
comes foreign war. France wanted her 
claims paid — you remember the demand— 
the refusal — and the war. San Juan de 
Ulloa bombarded by the French — Vera 
Cruz besieged, and poor Santa Anna got 
out of prison just in time to lose a leg. 
(Laughter and cheers.) Mexico came- to 
terms. France deducted £40,000 from her 
claim (1839). But Mexico was disgusted; 
Yucatan and Tabasco resisted. Bustamente 
fell, and Santa Anna again came tq the top. 
England and France acknowledged Texas 
and Mexico, forgetting San Jacinto, fought 
to recover Texas and lost. 

TEXAS AND THE MEXICAN WAR. 

. The Texans petitioned America for ad- 
mission. We paid her debts, and in due 
time she repaid us by seceding the moment 
she had the chance. (Oh, and cheers.) 
Then the Davis-Slidell-Mason party laid the 
track which brought the second conquest of 
Mexico. Slidell (1846) negotiated, plotted, 
and succeeded. Santa Anna fell. Paradez 
became President, General Taylor advanced. 
The battles of Palo Alto— (cheers) — Resaca 
de la Palma, Matamoras, then Camarzo, 
and the battles of Monterey, Saltillo, Buena 
Vista. (Cheers.) While old Scott took 
San Juan d'Ulloa — (cheers) — fought El 
Madelene, Cerro Gordo, Punta Nacional, 
Puebla, Churibusco, Chepultepec, Molina 
del Rey, where 36,000 Mexicans were de- 
feated by 8,000 Americans — (cheers) — the 
Gueta de Belin, and then hoisted the Stars 
and Stripes over the halls of the Monte- 
zumas ! — (loud cheers) — all done iu sixteen 
months, from 8th May, 184G, to 14th Sep- 
tember, 1847. You know the rest. Santa 
Anna fled. New Mexico and California 
became American States, under the treaty 
of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States 
paying $15,000,000 for the property, in 



addition to ,S3,.500,000 to liquidate Mexico's 
debts to American citizens. (Hear.) Mark 
the contrast between American conquest 
and European. Having taken their laud by 
fair fight, we presented the Mexicans the 
conquered country, and loaned them money 
to pay the debts of their armies. (Hear 
and " No.") England and France occupy 
countries, and not only refuse to leave, but 
make the countries conquered pay their own 
expenses. (Hear.) Witness the British 
invasion of China. (Oh and hear.) The 
American army went from battle to battle, 
glory to glory, and when our soldiers left, the 
Mexicans begged their conquerors to remain, 
and offerred General Scott the Presidency 
of the country. (Cheers.) France will 
have a different reception. (Hear, hear.) 
Let me continue my digest. Herrara was 
elected in 1847, with a pocket full of money, 
which he had paid into the Mexican trea- 
sury. General Arista succeeded (IB.oO,) 
and proved himself a better general under 
Herrara than President. He fell in 1852, 
and again Santa Anna was recalled, and 
ruled in 1853. This was the age of Mexican 
centralisation again. Press abolished — Je- 
suits recalled — the order of "Our Lady of 
Guadalupe " founded, and Santa Anna was 
called Most Serene Highness, and colonels 
stood behind his chair ; but Centralism 
did not prosper better than Federalism. 
Then came the filibustering Frenchman 
Boulbon, at Arizona ; and the Buccaneer 
Walker, at Lower California (1853-54). 
The Frenchman was shot, and Walker 
escaped to follow the same fate in Nica^ 
ragua. (Hear.) Mexico was again short — 
America was rich— and $10,000,000 more 
was given for Mesilla Valley, in order to 
get a road to the Pacific. Now comes the 
Indian savage — the Panther of the South, 
General Alvarez, who drove Santa Anna 
again from power (Aug. 1855) ; and the 
populace rose and smashed his statute in 
the square. (Hear.) Five Richmonds were 
now in the field — Alvarez, Comonfort, 
Carera, Haro y Tamaiiz, and the half-breed 
Vidaueri, each representing a part of the 
country, and fighting for the mastery of the 
whole. They compromised — Alvarez wa3 
President, and Comonfort was his lieuten- 
ant. Had the old Indian accepted the 
American Minister, Mr. Gadsen's, offer of a 
loan of $30,000,000— it would have been 
better for Mexico. (Hear and "That's so.") 
The treaty was rejected — Mexican vanity 
over-ruled prudence and policy. Now re- 
sumes the struggles of rival chiefs for 
victory — Comonfort seizes church property 
— commits outrages upon foreigners — Spain 
threatened war for non-execution of treaties, 
1847, 1849, and 1853— Alvarez resigned— 
Comonfort was elected, September IG, 1857 
— and the full-blooded Indian Juarez was 
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iusnrrection — Comonfort fell — and. Jan. 29, 
1858, Zuloaga was President — Miramon 
succeeded, and civil war was general. The 
young chief, about Bonaparte's age when 
at the head of the Grand army of Italy, 
espoused the church party — robberies took 
place — murders were common — when the 
Liberals again came top, and the Indian 
rules to-day in Mexico. (Hear.) Two new 
epidemics have come in with the present 
age — one is the Malady of Nations, the 
other is called the Malady of Princes. The 
young Sultan of Turkey, the King of Portu- 
gal and another Prince, suddenly die of 
gastric fever? Doctors say that malaria 
comes from low lands — kings live in high 
lands. The next is the malady of nations. 
The petty kings of Italy know what it 
Bieans. Unity is the cry. Grand Dukes 
fly before their revolutionary subjects. Mo- 
dena, Tuscaney, Parma, and Bomba only 
take flight a few months in advance of the 
despotic heads of the German nations — if 
these tottering monarchies plot to destroy 
republics. Mexico was the wedge to over- 
throw America. The plot is exposed — the 
game is up. England backs out of the dirty 
job, and Prim was too much the soldier and 
the gentleman to commit Spain. The whole 
affair was a job against America not Mexico. 
America is God's chosen land. The Ameri- 
cans are his chosen people. (Oh.) How, 
then, if it is not so, do you account for the 
miracles we have lately performed there ? 
(Hear.) God works in a mysterious way his 
wonders to perform. By one stoke of his 
policy he paralyzes the navies of the world. 
(Cheers.) Gunboats render fortresses use- 
less, and mortars show how valueless are 
fleets upon the ocean. (Cheers.) England 
is completely checkmated. (Oh.) So is 
France. We have got you over the ropes 
on this Mexican question — (laughter) — and 
we shall hold you there. 

THE SECRET TREATY. 

France and England have made a secret 
treaty! (No.) France goes to Mexico ; if 
America interferes, England will join ; and 
then America will take one nation in one 
Land, the other in the other hand, and shake 
the two bullying powers into respect for 
republics and American institutions. (Loud 
cheers.) Let us come to the invasion and 
trace the why and the wherefore. Take the 
money out of his pocket, said Old Fagan to 
Smike, but don't break the law, (Laughter.) 
England acts upon that maxim when a 
nation's honor is at stake as a rule — but in 
this case she does not even mention the law 
although determined to have the money. 
(Hear.) When a nation ignores the law the 
decadence of that nation has commenced. 
You pretend to be a law-abiding people. 
If having one lawyer to every five people in 
the land — (oh) — means law-abiding, then 



you are what you profess to be. But if 
law-abiding means honesty to individuals or 
justice to States you are just the reverse. 
The aggregation of individuals make the 
State as the aggregation of small towns 
makes the city. So the law of the indi- 
vidual through his representatives should be 
the law of the State — and the law of the 
State ought to be law of God ! (Hear, 
hear.) England assisted in dictating the 
law of nations — and it is this — when one 
State injures another State, the injured 
State first demands formal reparation. 
(Hear.) That failing then comes reprisals. 
That not succeeding, then England calls her 
Privy Council together, and war is formally 
declared. (Applause.) Now in this case 
England has done neither the one nor the 
other — no formal demands. (Yes.) No 
reprisals — no declaration of war. (A voice 
— England has made repeated demands.) I 
say she has not. It appears that I have 
examined the blue book closer than you, sir, 
for I speak with confidence while you are 
doubtful. (Hear.) Read Robert McCal- 
mont's correspondence between the bankers, 
the Mexican merchants and Lord John 
Russell that was published in the Times' 
city article some months ago. The noble 
secretary distinctly tells them — you make 
out, gentleman, a good case of bad faith — 
you have your claim — your debt should be 
paid — and is not — but that is no justification 
for the active interference of the Govern- 
ment. (Applause.) You entered on the 
speculation as a mercantile transaction and 
have lost, and call upon us to settle it. You 
have a bad debt and insist upon the Gov- 
ernment enforcing payment — and in reply, 
Messrs. Bankers, I am instructed to say to 
you that you have brought your complaints 
to the wrong shop. (Hear, and laughter.) 
If, as the noble lord stated, there was no 
justification, then, pray, tell me, sir, what 
has since occurred to warrant this singular 
invasion of a friendly power? (Hear, hear.) 
One gentleman says that the Mexicans 
misappropriated the customs revenue and 
murdered peaceful Englishmen ! Admit it ; 
but that was done before your Minister 
wrote that such things do not justify inter- 
vention. (Hear.) Those acts, if my memory 
serves me, were concocted by Miramon and 
the church party — (applause) — not by Ju- 
arez and the Liberal Government. (Hear, 
and "That's so.") Yet you war with the 
innocent in order to punish the guilty. 

ENGLAND A FILLIBUSTER. 

Let me tell you, statemen of Europe, your 
acts are watched, and your crimes will be 
held up at the bar of public opinion. (Hear.) 
When a nation dies, the world's coroner will 
carefully look into the case and publish his 
verdict. (Hear.) The time has passed 
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pale of Christianity, and call it the march of 
civilization. (Hear.) The time is passed 
when England can overrun weak powers, 
and absorb them in her own dominions (A 
voice — "8he never has.") She never, sir, 
did anything else. (Laughter.) The inva- 
sion of India, China, Affghanislan, and 
Persia — the seizure of Australia, Gibralter, 
Malta, Pekin, were as clearly acts of piracy 
— (oh) — as is the present unholy war for 
land in New Zealand — the forcible occupa- 
tion of the Puiijaub — the annexing of Bur- 
mah — the seizure of Oude, or this last but 
by no means the least villainous attempt to 
rob the Mexicans of their birthright and 
barter away their country to a Catholic 
Prince. ((Jhcers.) No, Mr. Speaker, the 
time has passed when the sea forces and the 
land forces of a nation can organize them- 
selves into bands of sheriff officers on the 
high seas or the high lands to collect the 
debts of individuals. (Loud cheers.) Eng- 
land had little cause — France less — and 
Spain none at all — for this outrageous 
burglary. Let us take an observation and 
see if we can trace this foul plot through 
the fog of doubt that surrounds it. Little 
fountains make large streams— large oaks 
come from little acorns. Stand upon its 
banks where it pours its turbid waters into 
the Gulf that washes the Mexican shore as 
well as our own and yours; and follow the 
destiny of the great river — beyond where 
Ferdinand de Soto thought he saw the gold 
— and walk up its borders for tens of miles, 
and I will show you great rivers that rush 
in upon it to swell its current and increase 
its tide. Go further on, hundreds of miles, 
and I will point you out the banks and 
rivulets that flow in from the mountains to 
keep its volume. Still further northward, 
thousands of miles, and the streams grow 
weaker till away up in the mountain you 
trace the tiny fountain, the source of all the 
labor. (Cheers.) Here you find away up 
in the highlands the beginning of the end, 
and there away down in the sea you find the 
end of the beginning. (Hear.) Individuals, 
States, and Hemispheres are similarly com- 
posed. The mind precedes organization, 
and the conception comes before the deliv- 
ery. The child is born in the thought, and 
is formed in the brain before it becomes a 
fact in the body. So is it with the law of 
nations and the acts of statesmen. (Ap- 
plause.) Each in itself is selfish. Do unto 
others as you would have others do unto 
you is the precept. Do unto yourself as you 
would not have others do unto themselves 
is the practice. (Laughter.) Diplomacy 
possesses a soul of mud and a brain of 
cobweb. The square peg will get into the 
round holes, and the round pegs will get 
into the square holes — (laughter.) — in the 
battle of life. So long as society continues 
to be an organized hypocrisy — (oh !) — so 



long as crime continues to be not in the act 
itself, but in its disclosure — (oh!) — so long 
as England interprets civilization to mean 
everything to the few — nothing to the many 
— so long will the English people submit to 
be called the mob, and take pride in obey- 
ing a Government that not only governs 
them without their consent, but without 
pretending even to consult them. (Oh, 
cheers, and question.) I have said enough 
to show that the plot was against the 
national life of the Ainericans, not the 
Mexican State. As Poles abhor Russians 
— Irish sneer at the English — Italians 
despise Austrians — so Mexicans hate the 
Spaniards. Hence England and France 
join hands — they would not have done so 
had America been free from civil war. • 
(Hear.) Dayton distinctly says to Seward 
(Sept. 27), the allies are taking advantage 
of our affairs to press Mexico. Suppress 
the Rebellion, and have an army ready 
to march, and they will be less cheeky. 
(Laughter.) October IG, he say^, Schurz at 
Madrid thinks that Mexico will copy St. 
Domingo, and ask for a Spanish Prince, 
Not a word about Maximilian although the 
crowned heads knew the plan months ago. 

THE CONTKNTION AND THE QUARREL, 

You remember two women and a man, 
through their Ministers, signed the Conven- 
tion in London, October 31, IS61. Collect 
our debts and demand security against 
future outrages, and indemnity for the past. 
That was its purport — no word about con- 
quest, occupation, or forcing a monarchy on 
the people. (Hear, hear.) Thouvenel (No- 
vember II) wrote Admiral De la Gravifere 
endorsing the policy. The forces embarked. 
The Spaniards landed, and occupied Vera 
Cruz. England was annoyed, France dis- 
gusted. Envy and jealousy distracts the 
councils of robbers in all ages, (oh !) Then 
came the Orizaba meeting, April 9. France 
domineered. Prim protested. You break 
the treaty ; you have no right to force a 
government on the Mexicans against their 
will. I am deceived. I shall withdraw. 
And he did. After the treaty of Soledad. 
Napoleon was his friend. You remember 
the letters that passed between them. He 
would not be the tool of the Emperor, 
Fiance goes on, taking the refugee General 
Almonte with her, and Maximilian is to 
have a throne. The Uount de Reuss sends 
to Cuba for transports. The Governor- 
General refuses to send them. The English 
embarked for home April 16, and gave Gen- 
eral Prim transports for two thousand Span- 
iards. Earl Russell blundered at Vienna, 
misled by Rothschild, Baring, and Brown ; 
he blundered again by acknowledging the 
South as a fact — (No)-iand now his great 
blunder, which will destroy his fame, is this 
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checkmate the nmbitious designs of Spain 
and France, and, playing too fine, he has 
checl^mated himself. (Hear.) Soldiers dy- 
ing at Vera Cruz and swollen estimates are 
not pleiisant reminiscences of the Mexican 
embroglio. Forty years ago the Liberals 
wept for joy over the Mexican Republic. 
Now, Liberals inaugurate a monarchy for 
that same nation ! M. Michel Chevalier 
tries to prove France the protector of the 
Latin race and the Catholic faith — but it 
won't do. If so, let her face Garibaldi and 
support the Pope ! Perhaps a frigate waits 
at Civita Vecchia to take his Serene High- 
ness to Vera Cruz, and the French army is 
to be his body-guard on the Plaza! Per- 
haps this is his honorable banishment ! 
•Who knows ? Perhaps Archbishop Hughes, 
an American, will be the next Pope of the 
Roman church ? (Hear.) 

AUSTRIA, A REFORMER. 

When Satan amused the ancient populace 
by rebuking sin it created some severe com- 
ments in the Court Journal of those days. 
(Laughter.) The position was not more 
absurd than for Austria— shaky, bankrupt, 
imbecil Austria — to set herself up as a re- 
former of the land of the Aztecs ! (Hear.) 
Austria — shaky in Politics, imbecile in Dip- 
lomacy, and bankrupt in Finance ! Austria 
—where despotism is considered a virtue, 
insolvency a merit, and defeat worthy of 
praise ! Austria— that land whose capital 
ran with blood only fourteen years ago, 
whose rebellious subjects imitated the Mexi- 
can insurrectionists, and marched through 
Vienna in 1848 ! (Cheers ) Austria— who 
lost Lombardy last year and will lose Venice 
this! Austria — whose Hungarian dominions 
are almost open revolt, where rebellion lurks 
in the open day, and independence is loom- 
in the distance ! Yes — this is the rotten 
power that proposes to give a stable govern- 
ment to Mexico, in the person of the Grand 
Duke Maximilian ! Who will support his 
prestige ? Will grand dukes be on his staff? 
Will he take over some of the broken-down 
Italian princes to form his Court? Will the 
Emperor send him out in a frigate ? Will 
some Swiss soldiers be hired to make his 
body guard ? France is making a mess of 
it. Why take Almonte ? — was he not ban- 
ished ? Is he not the Slidell— the Davis of 
the country ? Suppose France or England 
had landed at Charleston and taken Yancey 
and Mason by way of conciliating Mr. Sew- 
ard ! (Hear.) Or suppose some power had 
landed ou the Irish shore, taking Smith 
O'Brien, Mitchel or Meagher, on their 
march to London, by way of reconciling Pal- 
merston and Russel! (applause) or suppose 
that Russia, Prussia, and Austria had claims 
against France, and an Austrian, a Prussian 
and Russian, had been murdered there — and 
they signed a convention — landed at Cher- 



bourg — quarreled there— and Russia went 
alone to Paris, taking Lamoricicre, Ledra 
Rollin, and Louis Blanc, to pacify the Em- 
peror, or perhaps throw in a Bourbon or two 
in order to make it pleasant! (Hear.) Or 
still another analogy. Suppose Austria was 
Mexico, and England and France landed 
troops at Trieste, and to show their friendly 
regard to the government of Vienna, they 
allowed General Turr, and Klapa, and 
Kossuth to join this friendly expedition ! 
(Cheers.) By changing the scene you see 
the singular position Napoleon has placed 
himself in by taking Almonte on his staff, 
while England embarks with Oomonfort and 
Spain takes Miramon in charge — (cheers) — 
the very men who committed the outrages 
being their most intimate friends. (Ap- 
plause.) Take another argument. The 
Convention means invasion — the invasion, 
actual war, without declaration. The object 
is to collect old debts, and to stop murder. 
Indeed ! If old debts, why not invade Spain 
— (cheers) — Spain owes individuals, Span- 
ish securities are shut out of all tlie Bourses 
to-day; and yet repudiating Spain goes to 
Mexico as a self-constituted bailiff, to sell 
the Mexicans out. (Cheers and laughter.) 
Why not invade Greece or Peru ? Do they 
not owe some back moneys? Again to stop 
murder. Ah, yes ! — well, I would recom- 
mend them to invade Ireland, (cheers,) or 
Manchester? o-r Ludgate-hill ? (Cheers.) 
Stop murder ! why there have been more 
murders of English subjects committed in 
these Islands the last few weeks than in 
Mexico in a dozen revolutions ! (Hear.) 
The cry of murder comes up at every corner ! 
We breakfast on murder ! dine on murder ! 
The first thing your paper gives you in the 
morning is another tragedy ! Tragedy, did 
I say ? Yes, — what can be more melo-dra- 
matic than the Taylors all in a row ? and the 
little ones side by side in Ludgate Hill? Or 
the brutal assasination of peaceful land- 
owners in Ireland ? (Hear, and yes.) 
France has gone to Mexico. Orizaba is 
seventy miles from the shore. The next 
station is La Puebla, where we shall hear 
from the army by the mail due here on Sat- 
urday, which left Vera Cruz on the 29th 
April. Juarez will fight in the mountains. 
Guerilla warfare is a Mexican patent. France 
is in a singular position away inland — no 
reinforcements, yellow fever in the camp, 
guerillas on all sides — England and Spain 
hostile — one hundred miles from Mexico ! 
Good gracious, what a position ! The French 
army has been sent there to perish — to be 
sacrificed in order to allure France to the 
proper pitch of enthusiasm to send reinforce- 
ments. (Cheers.) For to-day the invasion 
meets with no favor in the army, the navy, 
or the people. All are against it, all oppose. 
The Siede, La Presse, the Opinion Nutionale, 
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France and Spain signed a contract to do a 
certain thing. Somebody has broken that 
agreement. (Hear.) If England is right 
in returning, France is wrong. If France is 
right in remaining, England is wroug. (Ap- 
plause.) Prim lays the blame on France, while 
the English press are all cheering France on 
to destruction ! Is England trying to get 
Prance into a war with America ? The way 
to win your game of chess is not to smash 
the table. (Hear, hear.) I mentioned that 
France must have a reverse in Mexico to 
arouse the French. That is the way Pal- 
merston managed the China affair. Remem- 
ber the Peiho ! How easy after that it was 
to send out ships and troops, and cannon, 
and add £10,000,000 to the taxes. (Hear.) 
Palmerston understands his people. He can 
elect a Parliament any time on any war, any- 
where ! unless it should so happen that tlie 
people were hungry? Mr. Adams wrote to 
Mr. Seward, February 14, that England 
held the door lo-hile her tioo associate-'i tvent 
in to perpetrate the very act lohich she de- 
nounced at the start! and our minister 
also intimates that the whole job was got up 
by the premier and the foreign secretary, 
without consulting the other members of the 
Cabinet ! (Oh ! and order.) 

The allies did not want the money. Did 
not Mr. Corwin offer to pay the bills ? Did 
not Mexico accept the loan? and have not 
England and France rejected the offer? Mr. 
Seward says so. (Hear and applause.) What 
is the inference ? Why, it is that the pound 
of flesh nearest the heart was wanted — not 
the ducats. Mexico was the flesh — America 
the heart. But the European Shylock will 
not be more successful than him of the 
Rialto! (Hear and interruption.) Some gen- 
tlemen remarks that England had retired, 
and therefore was not responsible. When 
three muscular Christians combine to go to 
a church, and two of the burglars quarrel on 
the threshold over the division of the spoil — 
(laughter) — and the third goes out and robs 
the treasury, burns down the church, and 
shoots the priest— (hear) — do you pretend 
to tell me that the outside thieves are not 
equally responsible for the crime that the 
inside ruf&an has perpetrated ? (Loud 
cheers.) 

America's four cardinal virtues. 

In conclusion, gentlemen, let me observe 
that America has four points in her political 
compass — four cardinal ideas — each grand, 
pregnant, national. The first is Independ- 
ence — a word that does not appear in the 
Hebrew Bible or the English Shakespere. 
The word is American — we fought for it — 
we won it — we own it. (Hear.) The second 
is Liberty ! No other land can claim its 
fame. Liberty abroad means despotism. 
(Oh!) In America it means liberty! (Cheers.) 
The third is Union. (Cheers.) We planted 



it — we cultivated it — and the idea is conse- 
crated in the death of treason. (Hear.) The 
fourth point is an heirlooni — a tradition — a 
fine idea — known to all, and all will fight for 
it to the death. You anticipate my point — 
it is the Monroe doctrine. (Cheers.) The 
President, forty years ago, introduced ten 
lines into his annual message. Let me recite 
them : — 

THE MONROE DOCTRINE. 

"The American Continents, by the free 
and independent condition which they have 
assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to 
be considered as suljjects for future coloni- 
zation by any European power ; and while 
existing rights should be respected, the 
safety and interest of the United States re- 
quire them to announce that no future 
colony or dominion shall, with their consent, 
be planted or established in any part of the 
North America Continent." 

So wrote President Monroe in his Con- 
gressioiial Message, Dec. 1823. Calhoun of 
Carolina, and Adams of Massachusetts, were 
the prominent men of his Cabinet. So North 
and South were both well represented. 
Senator Cass, representing the great work, 
endorsed the doctrines in 1853 — and Mr. 
Seward, representing the East, Jan. 26, 
1853, made a powerful speech in the Senate 
on continental rights and relations. " Sir," 
said Mr. Seward, •' I am willing to declare 
myself opposed— radically opposed—opposed 
at all times, JJOH' henceforth and forever — 
opposed at the risk of all hazards and conse- 
quences, to any design, of any State or 
States on this Continent." The Seward of 
that day is the Seward of this. The eloquent 
Senator is now the great Premier who has 
confidence in his people, and his people have 
confidence in him. (Cheers.) I am one of 
his admirers, and I demand of him as one of 
that people to drive P'rauce out of Mexico. 
(Oh.) Let the Galena, the Monitor, and 
fifty gunboats steam to Vera Cruz, and 
speedily too. France must loose her grip 
from the throat of Mexico, or Napoleon 
must die. (Dissent.) C«sar had his Brutus — 
Charles I. his Cromwell — and the Emperor 
of the French does not profit by their ex- 
ample. Naturally jealous of seeing the 
Bourbon Princes intimate with the Presi- 
dent — disgusted at finding them fighting 
the battle of Liberty with McClellan — under 
the impression that America was dying, 
showing how little he knew our people. 
(Cheers.) He has made a secret treaty with 
Palmerston that will as surely overthrow 
both powers, and meet with the contempt it 
deserves. (Hear.) 

Carry out the programme of forcing bank- 
rupt European Kings upon Young Repub- 
lics in the Western world, and Napoleon 
may be the last Bonaparte that will ever 
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Wales may be the last King of England. 
(Dissent, hisses, and derisive laughter.) You 
may hiss — or you may applaud — you can 
neither bend me nor break me. (Hear.) 
The debate is on the square — mind against 
mind — brain against brain. I have given 



you some facts — some ideas — and conclude 
by saying to France, take off your soldiers 
from our Mexican soil, or we will make 
Mexico the grave of the Third Napoleon! 
(Loud cheers and applause.) 



GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ON INTERVENTION! AMERICAN! 
AND YANKEE PLUCK! 

ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND AMERICA. LOUD CHEERS FOR 
THE AMERICAN UNION. 



[From the London American of May 21, 1862.] 



The terrible distress in Lancashire and 
some of the other manufacturing districts of 
England has given rise to the opinion with 
some that England and France ought to in- 
terfere in the American struggle. This 
question, like all others which occupy the 
public attention, is thoroughly discussed by 
the people at the public discussion halls in 
London, and as the secession press of Eng- 
land are most industriously instructing the 
people to encourage intervention, misrepre- 
senting the North, and manufacturing sym- 
pathy for the South, it is not surprising that 
on the question, at one of these public dis- 
cussions " Ought England and France to 
interfere in the Amencan struggle T' there 
should be many speakers in the affirmative. 

Mr. Train, who replied to those speakers, 
spoke witli his characteristic boldness; it 
will be observed that he has not scrupled to 
speak plainly and to the point, regardless of 
consequences. 

It should be born in mind that in all these 
speeches, made to English audiences, Mr, 
Train never forces himself upon his audi- 
ences, he never rises unless loudly called for, 
or speaks unless by the desire of those who 
listen to him. It may appear somewhat 
singular to us that an English audience will 
listen to the vigorous thrusts and tremen- 
duous blows that Mr. Train inflicts upon 
their government and themselves in many 
of his speeches; but it should be borne in 
mind that the people themselves admire 
genuine pluck, and Mr. Train's unconquer- 
able energy and perseverance, his demo- 
cratic opinions, and his many successful and 
profitable labors for English charities and 
the English people, have won their esteem 
and rendered him a popular man. 

At a recent ])ublic discussion on the " in- 
tervention" question, Mr. Train made the 
following vigorous and characteristic speech: 

Ought England and France interfere in the 



American war? Of course not — why should 
they? What right have they to interfere? 
Let England and France mind their own 
affairs, and leave America to settle her own 
disputes. (Hear.) The precedents men- 
tioned by two speakers where England inter- 
vened in the South Ariierican Republics 
bear no analogy to this case. It is posi- 
tively insulting to mention the three closer 
powers of Paraguay, Venezuela, on Central 
America, with the more or less United States 
of America I And why did England inter- 
fere even there ? Because they were weak 
and she was strong. (Oh. and hear.) Bel- 
gium and Greece were better precedents — 
but those powers were also too feeble to re- 
sist. You say France intervened in the 
Revolution. Even so — but there is a wide 
field between the Revolution of the colonies 
against England and the Conspiracy in Se- 
cessia against the country. (A voice : where 
is the difference?) Simply, one people re- 
volted on the issue that taxation ivithout 
representation was robber i/ ! — (hear, hear,) 
— while the others conspired against the 
very laws the Southerners made themselves. 
(Applause.) Possessing more than an equal 
representation, they went in for more by 
robbery, ignoring taxation altogether. Such 
men as Lafayette, and De Grasse, and Ro- 
chambeau, are again well represented in 
another age — by the Count of Paris, the 
Duke of Chartres and General Havelock, 
and a doaen great names who are fighting 
the cause of freedom. (Cheers.) Intervene 
say you — but hands off, say I ! Europe says 
to America, stop fighting ! America says 
to Europe, mind your own business. (Laugh- 
ter.) Europe says to America, when rogues 
fall out, honest men reap their reward. 
(Hear.) America says to Europe, when 
honest men fall out, rogues stand ready to 
pick up the spoil ! (Laughter and applause.) 
The diplomatic wolves have been howling 



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for months, but the nation is not quite dead. 
The European vultures will have no oppor- 
tunity of satiating their appetites on the 
carcase of a dead Republic ! Look on if 
you like, and commend or censure, no mat- 
ter which ; but keep on your own side the 
fence. We seek not your friendship — we 
fear not your enmity. Enemies never be- 
tray you — the ambush — the betrayal comes 
from your friend. England bullies weak na- 
tions but toadies to strong ones. (Oh!) 
The honorable speaker makes a fearful ad- 
mission when he says that England has put 
up with insult fer more than fifty years, in- 
stancing the Maine boundary — the Oregon 
question — the tSan Juan difficulty — and the 
overhauling of ships in the Gulf. (Hear.) 
So much the worse for England's bravery — 
if these were insults, which they were not, 
and as England is ever ready to attack weak 
powers, it follows that England was afraid 
of us. (Oh! and derisive laughter.) You 
may sneer, sir, but England never acts but 
from motives of interest or fear. (Hear.) 
An opium war in China, or a Fidibustering 
Expedition to Mexico, a fight with the Aff- 
ghans, or an attack upon the Indians of the 
Southern ocean, just suits the taste of your 
people. (Oh ! and dissent.) Give us money, 
give us land, give us trade, or judgment is 
ours, and we will repay, saith this Christian 
nation. (Laughter.) When you wanted 
money last century your war policy was 
comprised in a sentence : — Squeeze the old 
Begums of Oude. (Laughter.) Read the 
impeachment of Warren Hastings, which 
Burke prepared ibr Sheridan to deliver to 
the House of Lords. Your policy tliis cen- 
tury has been — when you wanted to distract 
attention from European complications, you 
overhauled an American ship, and then 
apologized — (Oh!) — always ready to strike 
a small man, but careful not to hit a man of 
your own calibre. (Oh ! and hear.) Inter- 
vention in our affairs means war to the 
knife — war to the cannon's mouth. (Hear.) 

Oh! though perennial be the ftrife. 
For honor acai-, for hearthstone fire; 

Give blow for blow! take life lor life! 

Strike till the lust armed foe expire ! (Applause.) 

You complain of our being so long in putting 
down the revolution. You landed in the 
Crimea in September, 1854, and did not 
enter Sebastopol till September, 185.i. 
(Hear.) We have been some time ; but you 
forget that we have been fighting our own 
people — Americans against Americans. 
Had we been pitted against Englishmen or 
Frenchmen, as we should be in case either 
dare to interfere — (oh !) — we would have 
arranged the matter in half the time. (Ironi- 
cal laughter, followed by loud cheeiv. An 
English audience will always cheer a plucky 
thing, even though it tells against them.) 
Invade us, proud kingdom, if you dure, and 
we will 



Make every houpo. and rock and tr<-e, 

And hill, our forts; and ft-n and flood! 
Yirldnot! our si.il .shull ratlier be 

One waste of fl.ime, one sea ot blood ! 
Fear not your sied, nor fear your i;oId— 

Not Knglish force, nor Knglish fraud, 
Truat not your race — as falsf as coM — 

Whose very prayers are lies to God I 

(Hisses and applause.) Domestic war may 
bring foreign discord ; but foreign war would 
bring domestic happincs. Stjlomon was 
2vise 'whenhe defected the false mother hy 
ordering the child to he cut in two ! 'I'here 
was music in the war songs of our revolu- 
tionary sires : — 

States of the West ! my own fair land ! 
Our fo' has cine — the hour is nigh ; 
His balefires rise on every hand — 

Rise as one man to do or die! 
From mnuatain, vale, and prairie wide, 
From forest vast, and finld and glen, 
And crow'Jed city, p'lur thy tide, 

Oh. fervid band! ofpatru.t men. (Applause.) 
Uii, old and young! the weak be strong! 
Kise for the right — hoil back the wrong, 
And foot to foot, and biand to brand. 
Strike for our own dear n.ntive kind ! (Cheers ) 

Interference ! who ever heard of an author 
introducing a stately fijrure in the last scene 
of the last act of a great drama. (Hear, 
hear.) Think of trotting Macbeth out for 
the first time just before the fall of the cur- 
tain. (Laughter and cheers.) The price of 
truth is slander — the price of falsehood is 
praise — nevertheless, truth is God's law — 
while falsehood is the devil's counsel. (Ap- 
plause.) Give me sneers and let me be 
lionest — or give me cheers and make me a 
traitor. England applauds Secession — and 
hisses Unity and patriotism — not because 
she loves the South more — but the North 
less. (Hear.) My words may annoy you — 
but my points I will force you to admit. 
(Will you?) How absurd for the learned 
speaker to say that America is always insult- 
ing England, if it is true why not resent it — 
when the gauntlet is thrown down why don't 
you take it up? No! Mr. Chairman, the 
fault of our people is they think too much 
of England — else they would not feel so sen- 
sitive at your most unmanly, ungenerous, 
unnatural conduct. (Hear.) America hate 
you ! — you are misinformed. It is the elder 
who envies the young nation. The father in 
England is jealous of the son who is growing 
up to overshadow him — no more prominent 
trait crops out of English character. The 
First George hated the Second — the Second 
disliked the Third — and the Third George 
was always at war with the Fourth — Fitt 
and the King were always plotting against 
Fox and the Regent. (Hear.) Royalty 
gives the fashion, nobles copy, and hate 
their first-born sons. 'I'he landed gentry 
follow, and dislike theirs, and the middle 
classes, under the barbarous old feudal laws 
of primogeniture, imitate all the vices of tlie 
aristocracy without copying any of their vir- 
tues. (Oh, and applause.) Hence the envy 
and jealousy of the father towards the son 



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who will superseile him in the entail. This 
is the evil of primogeniture — (cheers) — such 
is England. The aristocracy rule. The 
middle classes assent, and the people are 
called a mob I (Hear, and "that's so.") 
This diversion I have made to prove that 
the son bears the father no ill-will — while the 
contrary is proverbial 1 Individuals are too 
much like States, not to apply the simile to 
nations. England, the father, is jealous of 
America, the first born. But the child bears 
no enmity against the parent. (Cheers.) 
No ! America neither fears you nor hates 
you. Her annoyance at your strange treat- 
ment arises from affection, not revenge. 
(Cheers.) Besides, victors bear no malice 
against the vanquished. (Oh!) It is the 
punished who brood revenge, not the pun- 
isher. America has always been the victor. 
England was defeated on both occasions. 
(Hear and " No.") Therefore it is England 
who broods over the disgrace — not America, 
a country that was never conquered. (Oh, 
and cheers.) Intervention in American af- 
fairs! with whom? 'I'he North or South? 
Not the South, for Yancey says it is im- 
possible. Besides it would be declaring war 
against the United States. (Cheers.) Not 
the North — for America is not so low as to 
choose an arbitrator in the hour of victory. 
(Cheers.) AVould Havelock have allowed 
Prussia to have intervened as hti.was going 
intoLucknow? (No.) Would France have 
allowed America to intervene in favor of 
Austria for SoUerino? (No.) Would Eng- 
land have allowed intervention in the Crimea 
as she was walking through the Redan and 
Malakoft" into Sebastopol? (Cheers.) Not 
a mite of it. Let Napoleon do so wild a 
thing as to dare interfere in our affairs, and 
you may purchase his crown for a shilling. 
(Oh, and applause.) Let England desecrate 
our soil by invasion or intervention, and even 
the crown jewels of those islands may as well 
be ofifered to the highest bidder. (Hear and 
" Question.") The gentleman says, " Ques- 
tion" — the simple fact of his interruption 
shows how closely I sail to the subject un- 
der debate. (Applause.) England may not 
be accustomed to this kind of talk; but it is 
high time she understood that America 
ceased to be a chicken — (laughter) — when 
she smashed up all the European navies by 
that little naval sea tight at Fortress Mon- 
roe. (Cheers.) Which the Times in its 
geographical wisdom locates at the mouth 
of the Potomac. (Laughter.) Do you sup- 
pose that the American President would 
have allowed the French Minister to have 
gone to Richmond without the sanction of 
the administration ? (Hear, hear.) The 
least thought would explain to you that Mr. 
Lincoln and Mr. Seward planned the whole 
aii^air, and in acknowledgment for the ser- 
vices rendered by France, the President 
pays the Emperor the high compliment of 



going on board the French frigate at Wash- 
ington — (applause) — the first time it was 
ever done by any President. The ]\Iinister 
most likely went down to tell Davis that the 
Emperor was ashamed of his acquaintance. 
(Laughter.) Why is it, gentlemen, you see , 
nothing in America to commend? Why do 
you look so disheartened at the announce- 
ment of the fall of New Orleans ? Does it 
remind you of the picture of General Jack- 
son ? Why is it that you continually do cry 
— (laughter) — that the next mail will bring 
another Bull Run ? I will tell you, gentle- 
men, it is because the Wish is Thought's 
Father. (No, no ; and hear, hear.) Federal 
victories make you miserable. Hence you 
pray every night for Federal reverses. (No, 
no ; and that's so.) Everything against us 
delights you. Everything in our favor you 
disclaim. You would illuminate all London, 
if you dared to, if McClellan was defeated at 
Yorktown. (Oh! and a hiss.) No wonder 
you object to my mentioning Yorktown, It 
certainly has some unpleasant memories to 
p]nglishmen. (Question.) McClellan has 
been before the town about the same time 
that Washington was in another century — 
and the traitor Davis will, most likely, not 
wait so long to give up his sword as Lord 
Cornwallis did on a similar occasion. (Hear, 
hear; and applause.) Our army is full of 
Washingtons, and Koscuiskos and Layfay- 
ettes. Faraday saw the thunderstorm in a 
dish of water. Watts saw the power of 
steam, as the kettle sung its song of triumph 
over the firewood. So the true Union man 
felt in his bones the destiny God has ordained 
for his chosen people. (Applause.) Ich 
Dien was his war cry as well as that of 
the Prince of Wales. The almighty Dol- 
lar has furnished you with many a sneer. 
The almighty Cotton has also stimulated 
your sarcasms, but in future we intend 
to make you respect the almighty Union ! 
(Cheers.) The reserve power of America is 
terrible ! Every soldier is a voltaic battery, 
every officer a steam engine in breeches — 
(laughter) — for the future to be of American 
manufacture. (Hear, hear.) Our revolution 
is a war of ideas — a war of freedom — a war 
for oppressed mankind. (Applause.) There 
is -more brains in Northern hands than 
Southern heads — that is why we take the 
belt. (Hear.) Remember that only a year 
has passed since England made that fearful 
error of siding with rebellion. We shall 
never forget — nor will you ! 

Remember we that awful morn ? along the lines then came 
The flash from Sumter's guns that set our northern sky 

aflame. 
Nor lei-s was ours the thrilling thought from lip to lip that 

ran, 
Than theirs at Belgium's festival when Waterloo began ! 

(Cheers.) 
Adown Virginia's valleys and along her mountain ways. 
The light of loyal bayonets shall gleam like flfli.lt! of m;iize. 
Beyond her lair Potomac, nnd where JamesV current runs, 
The tide of loyal armies bears down her treacherous sons; 

(Loud cheers.) 



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Even Wellington and Bonaparte begin to 
pale with their one-barrel artillery campaigns 
when compared with our revolving arms. 
(Laughter and cheers.) England's idea of 
liberty is freedom for England and slavery 
for all mankind. (Hear, and dis^sent.) I 
mean providing it pays. (Laughter.) Other- 
wise — then slavery for England and freedom 
for all the world, (Oh, and hear.) It is 
only a question of money. India gave man- 
kind Conscience — Greece added Keason — 
Eome, Will — but America, possessing con- 
science, reason, and will, took out a jiatent 
for Energy and Truth. (Hear, and laugh- 
ter.) When England engaged a passage on 
the Secession Pirate, she accidentally got, 
into the wrong boat — (laughter) — and pos- 
terity will refuse to pay back the passage 
money. (Laughter.) If you have the least 
spark of honesty about slavery, why dou't 
you praise our people for abolishing it in the 
District of Columbia ? Why do you not get 
up and cheer for Mr. Seward for making a 
treaty with Lord Lyons to put down the 
slave trade. (Hear.) Have we not given 
up another point, the right of search? Ow- 
ing to our wonderful activity, England will 
find that our people will overhaul the most 
ships — (laughter) — and by that means no 
doubt prove that the slave trade is mostly 
carried on by English ships and English 
capital, armed by some of the leading dis- 
ciples of Exeter Hall. (Cries of oh, and 
that is most unfair.) 



Could eyery man's internal care be written on his brow, 
How many would our pity share, that raise our envy now j 

The simile is most applicable to some Chris- 
tian nations. (Laughter.) What a howl 
would have passed through England had 
the Northern army been guilty of the brutal 
attrocities perpetrated by the rebels at 
Manassas and elsewhere ? (Shame.) Using 
the skulls of our brave officers for spittoons, 
boiling off their flesh to get their ribs for 
castinets — (shame) — and sending tokens 
made from the bones of our brave men to the 
fiends in the shape of women, who seem to 
have acted like so many tigresses during this 
terrible civil war. (Sharae.) May God 
have mercy on their souls ! Yes — 

Perish ye traitors and knaves, 
Ye changers of men into slaves, 

Ye rebels, so craven and base. 
Where now is your boasted reliance? 
And where are your looks of defiance?} 

Mid clouds of defeat and disgrace! 

These men and women are quite worthy of 
your sympathy. (Oh! and a voice: We 
never sympathized with them.) But, hurrah ! 
for the men of the North, hurrah ! You 
have not the inclination to appreciate our 
army of noble women and brave men, but 
I say — 

God bless the Union armv, 

And ihe flag by which it stands; 
May it prcsprve with Kreemau's nerve 

What Freeman's God demands! (Cheers.) 
Peal out, >e bells, ye women pray, 

For never yet went f^irth 
So grand a Ijand, for Law and Land, 

As the muster of the North. 

(Loud and continued cheering.) 



GEORGE FRA^^CIS Um 0^ THE AMERICAN NiYY! 

THE MONITOR! STATESMEN! BAiNKRUFTCY! 

INSOLYENCY! AND TAXATION! 

[From the London American of April 2, 1862. j 



ANOTHER BROADSIDE FROM MR, TRAIN. 

It would be rather difficult to realize how 
complete/y the Secession sentim.ent has given 
way in this country, since the recent North- 
ern victories, to Federal sympathy. The 
press took the cue from Lord John Russell 
and the Parliamentary debates, and the 
])eople are not long in following their lead- 
ers. Yet, notwithstanding this sudden 
change in favor of the Union, the old feel- 
ing crops out now and then ; as was shown 
at the " Cogers" on Saturday evening, when 
Mr. Train brought his batteries again into 
action in defence, the opening speaker saying 
that America was bankrupt, and had no 
statesman equal to the present emergency, 
the principal attack being against the tax 



bill of Congress, The audience seemed 
unanimous in calling up Mr. Train to re- 
spond to the charge. 

NO STATESMEN IN AMERICA ! 

Mr, Train : I will answer your cheers, 
Mr. Grand and gentlemen, by brevity in re- 
ply. Some poet says, we take no notes on 
time but for a loss," (Laughter.) Young, I 
think, was the party who said that man at 
thirty thinks himself a fool, knows it at forty, 
and at fifty chides his infamous delay ; but 
to-night we have had a gentleman past sixty 
stand face to face with acknowledged facts, 
ridiculing our institutions, sneering at our 
statesmen, and misrepresenting the object 
of our civil war. (No, and hear.) He says 
there is no honesty, no intelligence, no en- 



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ergy, no virtue in our statesmen. Oh ! that 
we could have his superior wisdom to guide 
our ship or state through the secession reefs ! 
I rise to apologize for his speech, (Oh! and 
laughter,) or rather to explain to you his 
meaning. Of course he could not have 
meant the Federal administration, where 
energy, honesty, action, has shaken even 
conservative Europe into respect. (Hear, 
hear.) His remarks apply solely to Floyd, 
the Thief ! Pillow, the Coward ! Beaure- 
gard, the EvACUATOR ! Cobb, the Robber ! 
Davis, the Traitor! Wise, the Liar! 
Toombs, the Pirate ! and Breckenridge, the 
Drunkard! (Loud cheers, laughter, and 
applause.) The honorable speaker's com- 
ments were intended for this nice little 
party of villains, who the thieves, burglars, 
and scamps of New York were ashamed of, 
and petitioned the Chief of Police to remove 
their photographs from the " Rogues' Gal- 
lery." (Laughter and cheers.) So you see, 
gentlemen, that there is some honor left 
even in the profession. Again, he said — 
America is going down with a velocity piti- 
ful to witness. Once more I act as interpre- 
ter. He means the great Northern army is 
about pouring down over the tobacco plan- 
tations and the cotton fields, to sweep away 
the remnants of treason into the Gulf of 
Mexico. (Applause.) He is fresh from 
reading McOlellan's proclamation to the 
Army of the Constitution. (Hear, hear.) 
The words, " rapid and long marches," " he- 
roic exertion," ''great privation," "death- 
blow to rebellion," are in his mind. (Hear, 
hear.) God smiles upon us. Victory at- 
tends us. These stirring thoughts inspire 
him to say that the Republic is going down 
out of the sight of nations, when he meant 
to say that the Army of the Potomac is 
already in Richmoml. (Cheers.) Who would 
ever have thought that England would have 
gone into ecstacies in describing the mas- 
terly retreat of the Army of Manassas! — 
retreat in this instance signifies weakness, 
cowardice, ignominy, disgrace ; while skill, 
judgment, prudence, and bravery are words 
to apply to the Russian army crossing to 
the north side of Sebastopol in a single night. 
(Hear, hear.) Do you know that sixty-tive 
gun and mortar-boats are within cannon-shot 
of New Orleans? The poisoning of wells, 
the infernal machines recently discovered 
about the fortifications of Columbus, the de- 
struction of crops, and the setting fire to 
peaceful commercial cities are acts of bar- 
barism equal to any of the brightest pages 
of English history. (Oh ! order, and inter- 
ruption.) Gentlemen, I allude to the em- 
ployment of Indians to bring the scalps of 
Americans to the English Treasury at so 
much apiece during the Revolution, to the 
ruthless destruction to the archives of the 
nation, the patents, and the valuable library 
at Washington in the last war ; the burning 



of the Danish fleet; the use of Sepoy com- 
missioners, in the absence of other wadding, 
for Punjaub cannon ; and the more recent 
barbarian destruction of dosuments four 
thousand years of age, curious, countless in 
value, presents from European princes in 
former ages that can never be replaced, to- 
gether with all the rich works of art of the 
\lantchou dynasty by the uncalled-for, un- 
manly, and ungenerous burning of the Em- 
peror's summer palace at Pekin ! (Hear, 
hear, and interruption; order! the chairman 
remarking that every speaker had the right 
of expressing his free opinions.) But, Mr. 
Grand and gentlemen, 1 will leave that por- 
tion of the American question to the in- 
coming mails, which will astonish you dur- 
ing the next few weeks with Federal victories, 
as much as you have been startled by our 
past successes, (applause,) and take up ano- 
ther subject — a subject that has already 
opened the eyes of the Times and the Ad- 
miralty. I speak of 

THE late naval BULL-FIGHT ! 

The Merrimac. — Five years ago I was in- 
vited by the Mayor of Southampton to meet 
the officers of a five thousand ton American 
frigate that had just arrived in the bay. 
(Hear, hear.) The Times gave accurate 
descriptions of this fine specimen of Ameri- 
can naval architecture, and the Emperor of 
Russia ordered Webb to build the General 
Admiral, as a model for his navy. You 
know the history of the Merrimac — how she 
was sunk at Norfolk, burnt nearly to the 
water's edge; armor-plated, irou-prowed, 
and created into a huge war-machine upon 
the ideas which Buchanan, the commander 
of the Washington navy-yard gathered from 
the unfinished Stevens' battery. (Hear, 
hear.) So still has been the movement, we 
had almost forgotten that such a ship ex- 
isted ; when, presto ! James River is alive 
again ; the Cumberland fires a broadside 
only to receive a fatal thrust from her iron 
antagonist, who, like Spanish matador with 
Spanish bull, withdraws a little, fires another 
broadside, headlong plunges into the Cum- 
berland, who bravely refused to strike her 
flag, and two hundred valiant men are with 
the fishes at -the bottom of the sea ! Like 
the soldiers who presented arms when the 
Birkenhead went down in Algoa bay — 
(cheers) — the men of the Cumberland sunk 
to rise no more in this world. (Hear, hear.) 
Another broadside from the iron monster, 
and the Congress struck, for blood was too 
deep upon her decks to fight, (applause;) it 
was not war — it was murder] Still another 
broadside, and the Minnesota, Roanoke, and 
St. Lawrence would have shared the same 
unhappy fate, when, lo ! a strange turtle- 
shaped craft startles the Merrimac's captain, 
compelling him to let go his expected prize, 
and stand to arms. (Hear, hear.) They 



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fonglit for five hours like two wild boars; 
now battery to battery — now hand to hand ; 
but the little war-god gained the victory— 
Heenan broke the arm of Sayers — (cheers, 
and laughter) — and the Merrimac returned 
to stop her bleeding wounds. (Heur, hear.) 
Now I come to the important part of my 
remarks : 

ENGLAND IS NO LONGER MISTRESS OF THE SEAS 
. — THE MONITOR. 

(Oh ! order.) The Merrimac has proved 
herself not a safe vessel to lay around loose. 
(Laughter.) Suppose the Monitor had have 
been "forty-eight hours sooner, she would 
have been in Washington! forty-eight hours 
later the Merrimac might have been there 
instead. (Applause.) Give her coals and 
munitions of war, what prevented her from 
running down the coasts, and smashing up 
our fleets? Who wonders that New York 
was frightened ? No doubt we would have 
found means to have stopped her progress, 
but not before some magazine of mischief 
had exploded. Here is my point : the War- 
rior will destroy any half-dozen wooden men- 
of-war afloat, (cheers ;) and in thirty minutes 
the Merrimac would destroy the Warrior, 
(dissent, and Oh !) hence the Merrimac alone 
would destroy the British navy; while the 
Monitor gave the Merrimac one crack be- 
tween the eyes, and sent her back to her 
corner. (Cheers.) I saw the Warrior was 
a failure when I found that she could only 
go into Portsmouth for coals fifteen days in 
the mouth. The Orlandos, the Emeralds, 
and the Warriors are all too deep for any 
port in American waters ! (Cheers.) No 
greater event has happened this last three 
hundred years. The locomotive was de- 
structive to the stage coaches ; telegraph 
made havoc of the letter-bags ; revolver 
proved itself a full-blooded colt among horse 
pistols. As the Enfield rifle laughed at the 
old brown Bess, and the flint-lock smooth- 
bores of the early wars, so the Monitor in 
naval warfare is what Mr. Peabody is in 
charity. (Loud cheers ) You had better 
tell Laird to stop the Defiance at Birken- 
head, and Bell to stop vast-heaving on the 
other iron-clad battery. Telegraph to Ports- 
mouth to discharge the workmen on the for- 
tifications, and order the Admiralty to turn 
your entire navy into cotton ships, coal ships, 
and lumbermen ; for half-a dozen Monitors 
would destroy as many empires. (Cheers, 
and dissent.) Some gentleman doubts it, 
but her recent action convinces me that the 
Monitor having proved herself a better sea- 
boat in the terrible gale on the 7th than the 
Warrior did in the Bay of Biscay, could 
steam across the ocean, and place Liverpool 
under tribute; knock down your fortifica- 
tions at Spithead ; destroy your fleet at 
Portsmouth ; steam up the Thames, (for 
you know how opposed England is to sinking 



vessels in the river ;) (laughter and cheers ;) 
and place London at her mercy, with her 
turret revolvers pointed at the Houses of 
Parliament, while Lord Palmerston was dis- 
cussing the propriety of spending twelve 
millions sterling on the fortifications of Eng- 
land. (Hear, and applause.) The Monitor 
had two guns — the Merrimac ten ; the Moni- 
tor had fifty men — the Merrimac five hun- 
dred ; the Monitor is not twelve hundred 
tons burthen ; the Warrior five thousand ; 
the Monitor draws but eight feet — the War- 
rior twenty-eight ; the Monitor cost fifty 
thousand pounds — the Warrior five hundred 
thousand. The keel of the Monitor was laid 
in the middle of October ; she was launched 
in the middle of January ; and before the 
middle of March demonstrated a principle 
that has rendered valueless a hundred navies 
and a thousand line-of-battle ships. The 
Warrior was two years in building. The 
wooden walls of England are buried with 
Campbell, who in poetry made their name 
immortal, (cheers ;) and Tennyson, I trust, 
is already at work on the iron sides of Eng- 
land ; for Britannia does need bulwarks, 
since the Monitor has rendered unsafe her 
march upon the deep. The Monitor has in- 
troduced a new epoch in naval history: 
already the French Minister has received 
the plans from our Secretary of War; al- 
ready the Russian legation have got the 
models ; and Lord Lyons has already sent 
Lord John Eussell plans for the Admiralty. 
You see that America is generous. We 
will not only send you the plans, but the 
men to make the steamers, as we did to 
make the Enfield rifles. (Laughter and 
cheers.) Who wonders at the astonishment 
of the Times 1 How anxious Napoleon 
must be to get to work ! for the Monitor 
could steer into Cherbourg, and sink the 
navy of France. For cannon balls rattle off 
her bomb-proof deck like minnies on the side 
of a rhinoceros, or buck shot oft' the corru- 
gated back of an alligator. The first naval 
power of to-day is America. (Oh! cheers, 
and laughter.) Our navy consists of the 
Monitor ; but we have voted five millions 
sterling to build a hundred more during the 
next six months, some of which are to go, 
like the Stevens' h&iiQry ; fifteen miles an 
hour, and to throw Rodman shot, some one 
writes to Laird, weighing half a ton. (Hear 
and cheers.) Do you know why you cannot 
fire over a hundred pound shot without burst- 
ing your Whitworths and your Armstrongs? 
Let me tell you a secret, as you know I bear 
England the best of good will. (Hear, hear.) 
It is because you have not learned the art 
of gunpowder; you have been spending your 
time on shot and shell, and cannon, and iron 
plates ; but you still use the old-fashioned 
small-grained powder, which has made the 
Armstrong gun a fai^lure ; (by-the-by, as 
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gun, will some of you be kind enough to tell 
me where the Merrimac got her two Arm- 
strongs from?) (Hear, hear.) Yes! you 
are not awake to the use of powder. When 
Dupont was here buying up the saltpetre, he 
seemed astonished at seeing large guns still 
loaded with small-grained powder. Your 
War Department should know that during 
this war all our large guns were loaded with 
a kind of gunpowder an inch cube in size, 
which gives new power to the projectile — a 
fact which your Admiralty should have made 
use of long before this. (Hear, hear.) This 
is the age of Monitors and gunpowder ! — 
have you not noticed Nelson's animated ap- 
pearance since the recent naval battle ? — 
oblige me by standing a minute on the steps 
of the Hotel du Morley, and contemplate his 
manly attitude both in peace and war. — 
(Laughter and cheers.) How surprised old 
Napier would have been could he have had 
one of the reserved seats at the late trial of 
armor-clad battle ships ! Why, the Monitor 
could have steamed through his fleet in the 
Baltic, sinking his men-of-war right and left, 
as the Merrimac did the Cumberland and 
the Congress, steamed into Cronstadt, sunk 
the Kussian squadron, sailed up the Neva, 
and asked the Emperor in his winter palace 
for a small tribute — if he preferred it to the 
destruction of his capital. Nay, more : the 
Monitor might have paid her respects to 
Dundas in the Black Sea, and swept away 
the Agamemnons and Napoleons the Third 
of the allied fleet like so many wooden houses, 
run into Sebastopol, sunk the Twelve Apos- 
tles, smashed Fort Constantino, and made 
Menschikoff' on bended knees beg for the 
safety of Sebastopol ! (Cheers.) Of such, 
gentlemen, is the Monitor. You must wipe 
off the old score, and commence anew. You 
have no navy now. Suppose both of us go 
to building Monitors, so that in 1863 we can 
start off on a piratical, filibustering expe- 
dition over the world together, instead of 
your going alone, as formerly. (Laughter, 
and cheers.) 

BANKRUPTCY INSOLVENCY — TAXATION. 

1 wanted to say a word upon the severe 
attack the gentleman made upon our taxa- 
tion and expectant bankruptcy, but ] fear 
that the morning hour is too near at hand. 
i(Cries of go on ; you have five minutes more, 
from the Chairman.) Your words, sir, were 
harsh upon America, and come with bad 
grace from a subject of the most tax-bur- 
dened nation of^the world. (Oh, and hear, 
hear.) When a man has realized a fortune 
in the sale of intoxicating liquors, how sin- 
gular it seems to have him come out as a 
first-class temperance lecturer 1 When a 
burglar sets your house on fire, it requires 
some cheek for him to run up the street 
singing out, Stop thief! You can imagine 
my surprise wheQ Lola Montez, who had led 



the gayest life of any woman in the century; 
told me in Australia that she was about re- 
turning to the United States and England, 
to deliver a course of lectures on virtue and 
morality — (laughter) — on the Christian prin- 
ciple that one sinner who repenteth, and so- 
forth ; of course, I applauded, as you do 
now. (Hear, and laughter.) These sudden 
changes are always surprising, but not so 
much so as to see England, who had built 
up her fortune on the slave trade, and the 
product of slave labor, coolly lecturing Ame- 
rica about the terrible sin she had entailed 
upon her. All these things I can stand — 
(hear, hear) but Herod is out-Heroded when 
England acts the Monitor as a taxation lec- 
turer. (Laughter and applause.) Certainly 
no other country has ever so manfully stag- 
gered under such terrible pressure. In all 
good nature, will you allow me to sketch 
your position ? ( Hear, hear, yes, and go on.) 
Then I will say that the honorable speaker 
is taxed on every thing he wears, from head 
to foot; on his American tobacco and Chi- 
nese tea ; on his Belgian chicory and West 
India sugar; his French wines and his Span- 
ish brandies ; every thing in this hall to- 
night — pictures on the walls, the gas-lights, 
and even the salaries of waiters bear the 
marks of taxation ! the rich and the poor, 
the merchant and the mechanic, the peer 
and peasant, all know the merits or demerits 
of taxation. Perhaps, as I am on the sub- 
ject, you prefer your own critic to tell you 
who it reaches : Your love of war, wrote 
the witty Dean, not many years before he 
died, has brought you taxes on every thing 
on the earth, and the waters under the earth, 
taxes upon all that comes from abroad, and 
every fresh value that is added to it by the 
industry of man ; taxes upon light, and heat 
and air ; taxes upon the spice that pampers 
the rich man's appetite, and the drug that 
restores him to health ; taxes upon the rich 
ermine of the judge, and the rope that hangs 
the criminal; taxes upon the brass nails of 
the cofiBn, and the ribbons of the bride — 
(loud cheers ! Mr, Train, however, continu- 
ing his apostrophe, and not noticing the in- 
terruption ;) the school-boy whips his taxed 
top ; the college-student drives his taxed 
horse with a taxed bridle over a taxed road ; 
and the dying Englishman pours his medi- 
cine, which is taxed fifteen per cent., into 
the spoon which is taxed twenty-two per 
cent., to fall back and die in the arms of his 
apothecary, who has paid a hundred pounds 
for the license of putting him to death. — 
(Cheers and laughter.) — He is then taken in 
a taxed hearse by taxed mourners to a taxed 
grave, where his virtues are portrayed by a 
taxed brush on a taxed marble, when he is 
gathered to his fathers to be taxed no more ! 
(Loud cheers. The audience seemed to 
take it all in perfect good nature.) England 
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ation. I have always denied your right of 
the monopoly of all the taxes of the world ! 
(Laughter.) America is great in nature as 
she is in art, and has the genius to organize 
a system of taxation that M'ill make you 
ashamed of yourselves. (Loud laughter.) 
I remember two pictures in Punch that so 
amused me at the time that I could have 
squeezed that (Mark) Lemon in pure delight. 
(Laughter.) One was Jonathan on one 
shore talking to John Bull on the other; a 
beautiful little clipper (representing the 
yacht America) sailing round and round a 
wash-tub in the foreground — (laughter) — 
Jonathan modestly opening the conversation 
by saying to John, We'll teach you how to 
make a man-of-war — (laughter) — one of these 
days — the comic artist must have had the 
Monitor in his eye ! (Applause.) The other 
picture demonstrated England's power of 
bearing taxation ; it was during the Crimean 
war ; an acrobat (John Bull) of huge pro- 
portions appears with a pyramid of cannon 
balls on his head, arms extended, with an 
immense weight in each hand, marked "na- 
tional debt, four hundred million pounds ster- 
ling," a huge mill-stone on his chest, (income 
tax,) while in the corner was a bag represent- 
ing the sixteen million pounds loan. (Hear, 
hear.) Punch observes underneath, "Not- 
vjithdanding the immense u-eigitt which he 
is now carrying, he can take the hag between 
his teeth, and walk round the room. (Loud 
cheers, and laughter.) Now, Mr. Grand, if 
the gentlemen will promise not to say any 



thing more about taxation in Americe, I 
will henceforth drop the subject in England. 
(Laughter, and good.) In conclusion, let me 
say that the logic of events, the logic of 
drilled armies, and the logic of Monitors, ig 
working out a new destiny for our Western 
civilization. Glance, if you will, through 
Nineverian, Babylonian, and Assyrian story, 
all settling down to represent Industry in 
Egypt ; pass on the tidal wave of time, 
through Persian, Carthagenian, and Grecian 
page, and you will find Rome introduced the 
moral power of Law ; a thousand years and 
more passed by, and France gives you Art ; 
another era of centuries, and a combination 
of Romans, Danes, Saxons, Normans, give 
birth to the science of Commerce in your 
proud and noble Englishmen. (Cheers.) 
When Providence, in his march of Empire, 
selected our western world to combine the 
whole record, Industry, Law, Art, Com- 
merce, in order to represent in its sublimity 
the great idea of nature — Progress. (Cheers.) 
The transactions of the past twelve months 
have led some distinguished philosophers to 
come to the conclusion that Humanity was 
a puling babe in Asia, a school-boy in Europe, 
and has gone to America to pass its man- 
hood ! (Cheers and applause.) 

Mr. Train was congratulated by several of 
his opponents, for, however sharp he may 
be in his thrusts when under the fire of de- 
bate, he generally manages to keep on the 
right side of his audiences. 



GEOEGE FRANCIS TRAIN, A CONYICTED FELON. 

HIS ABLE DEFENCE BEFORE THE MASSES. 



[From the London American of April 9, 1862.] 



A remarkable result of a remarkable trial 
will be found in our column's to-day. Mr. 
Train is the criminal, having committed an 
unprovoked assault on the Queen's highway. 
British justice is avenged. The American 
was condemned, the Englishmen were 
cleared. The most wonderful part, how- 
ever, "was the finding a man guilty purely on 
exparte evidence Not one of Mr. Train's 
witnesses were called. Some forty had been 
got together at great expense. Nor was it 
decided that he had the right of appeal. The 
animus of some of the witnesses was clearly 
shown to arise from the political feeling cre- 
ated by Mr. Train's steadfast position on 
the American question and the I'rent affair. 
Mr. Ward, the tradesman, who testified to 



numerous accidents, admitted that he had 
placarded in his window articles against Mr. 
Train on his letter to the New York Herald. 
Mr. Train seems to be already ventilating 
the question iu the Discussion Halls. The 
same night he spoke at the " Forum," and 
the '' Cogers," where the numerous audiences 
unanimously decided in favor of Mr. Train 
and his Tramways. The speakers all pointed 
one way — " Whatever may be the decision 
in the Court of Justice, the people are with 
you, the best evidence of which are the 
cheers with which you have been received 
to-night." Mr. Train, in rising amid loud 
applause, thanked the audience for permit 
ting him to deliver the speech in his defence 
that was refused him in the court. 



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STATEMENT OF THE CASE, 

Mr. Train. — You will give me credit, Mr. 
Chairman and gentlemen, of never having 
intruded upon you any personal matters of 
ray failures or my successes. A paper has 
been handed me showing me the points of 
discussion of this evening under the events 
of the week, but as I am just from the Court 
House, perhaps you will allow me to speak 
upon an event, which may not only prove 
fatal to foreigners, but actually aims a blow 
at the right of the subject, and if individuals 
can be indicted for the act of an incorporated 
body, would prove destructive to the grand 
liberties of vestries and corporations. My 
case is briefly stated. I am too well knowu 
as the sole patentee, promoter, and intro- 
ducer of tramways into Europe, to require a 
preface to my remarks. And I have received 
too much courtesy in this hall, not to know 
that you will accept whatever I have to say, 
■without imputing to me motives with which 
I am not actuated. I came, I saw, I con- 
quered. Birkenhead, London, and Potteries, 
and Darlington, all admitted — that provin- 
cial roads have passed the ordeal of preju- 
dice, and the omnibus proprietor of Birken- 
head has just leased that line for five years, 
at a large percentage on its cost ; but under 
the decision of to-day, these Hues may be 
ordered up — for the law as laid down at 
Kingston, would apply to one as well as the 
other. 

COURSE PURSUED BY INVENTORS IN ENGLAND. 

When inventors and introducers of new 
ideas reach a foreign country, they natu- 
rally seek those most interested to adopt 
the scheme. McCormick with his reaping 
machine saw the agriculturalists. Hobbs 
with his locks saw the manufacturers. Colt 
presented his pistol to the War Department. 
The yatch America reported herself to the 
Yatch Club. Creamer with his safety-brake 
and Beard with his patent truck saw the 
railway men. Hoe took his printing press 
to the Times. Lee shows his steam fire en- 
gine to the insurance companies. Thompson 
astonishes the boat-builders with his new 
inventions. The Monitor respectfully pre- 
sents her plans to the Admirality. In these 
inventions America was simply paying Eng- 
land a little interest on the great capital of 
Energy, Industry, Invention, and the Genius 
of Machinery she has been borrowing during 
the last half century. Each inventor, I say, 
seeks the head-quarters of his invention, in 
order to get authority to act. 

PLANS presented TO LAMBETH VESTRY. 

I presented my plans to the Corporations 
believing that any public body incorporated 
under the Act of Parliament, who was per- 
mitted to give a trial of my scheme, would 
save me harmlees from criminal prosecu- 



tion. The Lambeth Vestry was duly incor- 
porated by Parliamentary Act. I sent them 
my application. They asked for models. I 
showed them, giving explanations. They 
asked for a proposition. I made it. It was 
accepted. They wanted guarantees. I 
gave them. The bond was signed. The 
agreement sealed. The road promptly laid 
down under the eye of their surveyor. The 
vestry was satisfied ; and six hundred thous- 
and passengers since August, have used the 
four cars in testimony of my perfect success 
in introducing a carriage for the people. 

opposed to legal research. 

Now, having done all that a man could do 
to comply with the law, v/as it to be ex- 
pected that I should ransack the musty re- 
cords of the past since Alfred's day, wading 
through Habeas Corpus, Magna Charta, 
and the complicated machinery of the British 
Constitution — a copy of which I have never 
yet been able to purchase of any book- 
seller, although for one shilling the Ameri- 
can Constitution can be found in any book- 
store. (Mr. Hanley occasioned much 
laughter by saying that that was all it was 
worth.) Mr. Train — Yes ! under the un- 
godly rain of " Secessia," you are right — 
but under the new regime of honor and of 
" Union," its value is priceless to foreigners, 
to whom it will be presented in the novel 
shape of " Monitors." I say, continued Mr. 
Train, was it to be expected that I should 
pore over the records of the past, since the 
laws of Medes and Persians, to ascertain if 
there had been sufficient power given to Par- 
liament to pass an act authorizing vestries 
to treat with me on their own affairs ? 

ENGLISH GRAND JURY SYSTEM. 

I come now to the case. Can individual 
members of a vestry be held responsible for 
the act of the majority? Decidedly not! 
Such a law would destroy every corporation 
in the empire, for what individual would be- 
come a member of the vestry at the personal 
risk of time, money, and, in default, impris- 
onment ? Take Lambeth — Messrs. Henton 
and Taylor, connected with the " London 
General Omnibus Company," go to Kingston, 
and swear that twelve of their brother ves- 
trymen have conspired with Mr. Train 
against the lives of the parishioners. Your 
grand jury system is a sad relic of feudal 
days and barbarous years. A good man's 
name can be blasted by the oath of a bad 
neighbor, and, although the court may decide 
him innocent, this trial may have ruined his 
fortune and blasted his character forever. 
I was told that this exparte indictment was 
nothing, as I should have a fair trial where 
both sides should be heard. The words 
British Justice, Fair Play, and the honor of 
the British Jury were the grand words used 
to beguile me into the trial. My own judg- 



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raent, however, told me that until the feelin,2; 
created by the Trent affair had passed away, 
it was suicidal for an Aniarican to trust him- 
self in the hands of a British jury. 

A FARCICAL TRIAL, 

However, armed with a case prepared by 
Messrs. Baxter, Rose & Co., the leading 
solicitors in England, supported by six able 
counselors, Messrs. Boville, Knapp, Pol- 
lock, Lush, Sergeant Ballextine and Gr.ath 
— I, at least, expected fair play, but what 
are the facts ? The first day, the case of the 
prosecution was entirely in my favor as 
evinced from the witnesses ; but imagine the 
astonishment of every one in the court to 
see the foreman of the jury arise, and say 
that it was useless to call any more witnesses, 
as their minds wera already made up. The 
quality of justice is not strained — it blesses 
those that give and curses those that receive. 
The counsel intimated that Mr. Train had 
some forty scientific witnesses and others, 
some of them large vehicle owners, who used 
the tramway in preference, as it decreased 
friction, and enabled them to carry heavier 
loads, besides a mass of other evidence, 
proving that it was not only not a nuisance, 
but a'great blessing to the community. In 
reply to the judge the jury said — it was use- 
less to go on, as they had already decided 
that Mr. Train was guilty ! 

A convicted felon. 

Now I ask you, brother Cogers, if it is not 
rather a hard case that I shouM appear be- 
fore you a Convicted Felon ! having first 
been indicted as a nuisance by an ex parte 
statement, and found guilty by purely an ex 
paiie trial. The right of appeal was denied 
me, although some bills of exceptions — 
which I presume I shall have to pay — will 
be argued before the judges at Westminster. 
Bringing the verdict of guilty against the 
vestrymen would involve the ordering up of 
the road. The vestrymen would respond, 
we are but twelve in a hundred and twenty, 
and you find us guilty of doing as individuals 
what the Act of Parliament says we have only 
power to do as a corporation. You see where 
the law clashes with the State that made 
it ; the vestry's position is peculiar, having 
uo power to put down the railway, they cer- 
tainly have no power to order it up. Look 
at Wyld's Great Globe in Leicester square, 
erected in 1851 Laws are made for past 
experiences, not future expectations. When 
they told me there was no law in England 
allowing me to lay down a tramway, 1 re- 
sponded that there was no law against it. 
There is no law for navigating the air or un- 
der the ocean, because such locomotion has 
not been demonstrated. So there was no 
law on tramways, simply because you never 
expected them. The singular feature of the 
verdict is, all the Englishmen escaped, while 



the American, who acted by their authority 
was convicted, without his being allowed to 
speak in his own defence, or call a single 
witness in his own favor. 

A RIGHT DENIED. 

You, perhaps, may know that the laws of 
nations permit a foreigner to have six of his 
own countrymen on the jury on any criminal 
offence. My crime in the words and eye of 
the law, was a criminal one, and as Chief 
Justice Earl remarked, did not come under 
any civil process, therefore I was entitled to 
have six Americans upon the jurj'. A Brit- 
ish sailor in New York frequently calls for 
six Englishmen upon his case; and I myself 
have been asked to act as juryman in Liver- 
pool when an American sailor was being 
tried for some criminal oft'euce. These, then, 
are the grounds of which I complain. First, 
I am indicted as a criminal by ex parte 
statements. Second, I am not allowed to 
have six Americans upon the jury. Third, I 
am not allovied to speak in my own defence. 
Fourth, the verdict is suspended with the 
Englishmen — thereby throwing all the costs, 
my own, the vestry's and the prosecution, 
on to my shoulders, and those I represent ! 
and I may mention that twelve hundred and 
fifty pounds in cash, for law expenses had to 
be deposited before the trial came on. Fifth, 
I am not allowed to call one of my witnesses, 
hence am found guilty by purely an ex parte 
trial, when their leading witness testified to 
his political animus to an American. 

REFLECTIONS ON THE TRIAL. 

I am satisfied that my solicitors did all 
they could. My counsel watched every 
point of the case. The judge seemed en- 
tirely impartial, and the jury — specially 
called, were country gentlemen, owning their 
carriages — may have given a conscientious 
verdict. Oh, that I had lived in the halcyon 
days of the good and much abused Jeffries ! 
But why did the prosecution take the case 
down into the country, where tramways were 
not used, instead of bringin<;j it to Westmin- 
ster? If, as the judge ruled, ninety-nine 
were benefitted and one inconvenienced, 
why need the jury have heard more than one 
witness, if tliey believed his statement ? 
Ninety men may drink gin and water; I 
don't — hence they should be indicted. I 
have written a letter to the Times, a letter 
comprising some of the facts of this extra- 
ordinary one-sided trial, without the least 
expectation of their doing me the commonest 
justice of printing it. Had I been a " Seces- 
sionist," willing to sell my country to the 
highest bidder, it would receive more atten- 
tion. In conclusion, gentlemen, let me say 
that I have, at great cost of time and money, 
and of good nature, neither of which are en- 
tirely exhausted, practically sown an idea 
that must eventually fructify into a successful 
harvest. 



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WHAT IS A NUISANCE IN RNGLAND. 

It is pronounced a nuisance! — Nuisance? 
■ — Yes ! — to whom ? the Queen ? No ! I 
pay five per cent, on gross receipts into the 
Exchequer, as my mite to assist Mr. Glad- 
stone ill swelling the revenue. A nuisance 
to tlie parish ? certainly not ! I pay five hun- 
dred pounds a year towards the repairs of 
the road, thereby saving twenty-five per cent, 
taxes to the rate payers. A nui.saiice to 
industry? hardly? Do I not employ work- 
men to make carriages, cut timber, roll iron 
and lay the road ? • Does not the purchase 
of horses and corn, and hay, and the employ- 
ment of men to manage the tramway, add to 
the wealth of the nation ? A nuismice to 
the six hundred thousand passengers who 



used the tramway ? Ask them ! And they 
will tell you that many of them own their 
carriages and vehicles, and use the tram in 
preference to the road. To whom tlien is 
the nuisance ? Principally to Mr. Samuel 
Henton, the vestryman who receives some 
two thousand pounds a year from the " Lon- 
don General Omnibus Company," for har- 
nesses, and prosecutes this case in his public 
cap city of vestryman, simply as an act of 
philanthropy to the public at large. Of 
course the fact of one hundred millions of 
passengers passing over the roads of Boston, 
Philadelphia and New York last year, are 
not arguments available in England. The 
only point of law which an American will 
be permitted to reserve, is — The Monitor. 



THE FEDERAL ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. 

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN'S LIVE SPEECH ON THE FEDERAL 

ARMY, DELIVERED BEFORE THE LONDON SOCIETY 

OF COGERS ON MARCH 22, 1862. 

[From the London America7i of March 26, 1862.] 



The Society of Cogers is one of the most 
ancient of the London Discussion Halls, 
having been established in the reijrn of the 
Third George. It originally consisted of 
citizens of London, who met to watch the 
course of their representatives in London — 
Freedom of the Press — Freedom of Discus- 
sion — Obedience to the Laws — Loyalty to 
the Crown — and the Practice of Public and 
Social Virtue — are some of its tenets. — 
Among its early members were the Alder- 
men John Wilks (1756), Sir Richard Glynn 
(1784), Sir James Shaw (1813), Sir W. 
Faking (1819), and many of England's lead- 
ers. Here Jjroughani and Campbell mea- 
sured intellect; and both Houses have among 
them men who have debated here in other 
days. 

Mr. Train, on entering the Debating Hall 
on the 22d ult. for the first time, was at once 
recognized, and loudly called for: the events 
of the week being the theme for discussion. 
The audience was so pleased with his rat- 
tling digest of the late American victories, 
and his former able efforts, that they rose 
by acclamation, and there and then elected 
him an honorary member of the Ancient 
Society of Cogers. 

Below, we give Mr. Train's remarks on 
the American Army, on this occasion. We 
should judge, by the opening portion of this 
speech, that Mr. Train evidently thinks the 
advice of Sam Slick, that the judicious ap- 



plication of a little " soft sawder" often helps 
things along mightily, to be of some account. 

Mr. Chairman, I rise because courtesy 
demands it; I speak because it would be 
rudeness not to, and because, when an Eng- 
lish audience express their will, it is useless 
to combat it. The last speaker is a bold 
man to exjiress such radical sentiments. 
One would suppose that Ireland was on fire 
with revolution ; when, since Major O'Riley's 
selection, it seems as calm as a summer lake. 
I was pained to hear his comments on the 
Government, and apparent coldness when 
alluding to England's sovereign. It would 
be singular were an American to prove him- 
self more loyal in an English audience than 
the English or Irish themselves; but such 
is the fact in his case ; I never remember 
hearing the name of England's Queen men- 
tioned where Americans composed the party, 
that each and all did not rise, as if she were 
their Queen as well as yours. (Cheers.) The 
American people are peculiar in their admi- 
ration for that estimable lady; and now 
more than ever she has gained our esteem, 
since it has become known to us that it was 
her beneficent hand that removed the pen 
and ink away from Lord Palmerston just as 
he was about to indite that fatal declaration 
of war against a proud people, who have 
lived and will live in remembrance of the 
hallowed associations of their haughty an- 



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cestors. (Cheers.) A thought occurs to me 
as you cheer : we are living in a whirling 
age ; it is no longer the divine right of kings 
in your case, but the divine right of queens ; 
(applause ;) and on our side is a divine right 
which we shall ever maintain, of Union now 
AND Union for ever. 

The strange fancy that enters my brain is 
this : Should it ever so happen in the break- 
ing up of ministries, and the breaking down 
of governments, that you should become 
tired of the noble lady that had done already 
more for England than England can do for 
her — should it ever so happen in the strange 
vicissitudes that are taking place during this 
age of. events, that your Queen should be 
distasteful to you, which God forbid, and 
which I believe impossible, then let me say 
to you, in the name of the American people, 
I hereby promise that she shall be elected 
President of the United States. (Laughter 
and cheering.) And I am confident that 
the same spirit that sprung up in every liv- 
ing breast in that great United North to 
embrace and welcome her proud and lovely 
firstborn child, (cheers,) will stimulate our 
people to throw aside party on that august 
occasion, and place Victoria in the White 
House by acclamation. (Cheers, laughter, 
and applause.) 

The gentleman made a happy hit by call- 
ing this audience a republic of free men, 
where free thought and free debate and free 
opinion ruled supreme. I accept the Re- 
publican simile, and should hope that among 
its citizens there are none who would com- 
mit so base an act, under the garb of loy- 
alty to the Queen, as to breed treason 
against the government, and seek with blood- 
shed its overthrow, as some other bad citi- 
zens have done in that Great Republic over 
the way. (Hear, and applause.) Mr. O'Brien 
does not believe in the honesty of our Presi- 
dent on the slave question ; I am not sur- 
prised, for I have been long enough in this 
country to know that there is a large party 
in the land who would not believe any good 
of America or the Americans, even though 
the angel Gabriel whispered it in their ears. 
(Laughter.) The more we try to please you 
the less we appear to succeed. But what 
can we expect when the Saturday Review 
lands Burnside's naval expedition in the 
mountains of Western Virginia, (laughter,) 
and the Times makes the Confederate army 
march from Richmond to Bunker's Hill in a 
single night! (Laughter.) Older than our- 
selves we have taken your advice ; Dr. Rus- 
sell gave you the text to ridicule and laugh 
at our raw recruits ; (as Sotheron says in 
Lord Dundreary, he seems to have been as 
mad on the American question as a Welsh 
wabbit.) (Laughter.) You took it up, and 
told us that to make soldiers out of farmers, 
and tradesmen, and mechanics, and fisher- 
men, there must be hard drilling. We ac- 



cepted your counsel. Europe poured in 
upon us hundreds of her best artillery, cav- 
alry, and infantry officers, who, bursting with 
the love of liberty, were anxious to give 
Union battle. Look at McClellan's staff, 
composed of brave generals, bold princes, 
and future kings, who already have cried A 
Bourbon ! A Hatelock! and let slip a hun- 
dred regiments, to sweep the madman from 
his throne. (Applause.) By this time there 
is not even one Richmond in the field. 
Drill, you said ; we have drilled. 

Why do you wait so long ? then you 
asked. We are drilling, we replied. And 
I now point you to the million of drilled, men 
that cover a battle line of two thousand 
miles. Your mob, again you said, your mob 
never will give up Mason and Slidell. The 
mob did give up the traitors, and further- 
more received the British officers at Boston, 
who were sent to wage war against us, with 
almost a royal welcome I (Applause.) You 
said, you have no money, and we will not 
lend you a shilling. Gentlemen, toe never 
asked you for a shilling. (Hear, hear.) 
And, as I observed on a previous occasion, 
the only real cause we have yet given you 
for breaking the blockade was the taking 
up the entire Federal loan in our oivn land, 
tvithout even considting Mr. Sampson of 
the Times, Baron Rothschild, or the Lon- 
don Stock Exchange. 

You said it was impossible to blockade 
our ports. Gentlemen, there never was a 
blockade so effectual, because there never 
was war so extensive, or people so deter- 
mined, or administration so strong ! There 
is no cathartic sufficiently powerful to re- 
move the stones from the ruined harbor of 
Charleston, until the Federal Power chooses 
to exercise its clemency again. The Times 
Russell now admits the power of our navy, 
which you have ridiculed, and thinks, where 
two millions of bales of cotton are locked 
up, which, if let loose, would command three 
prices, and where all the simple necessaries 
of life are one hundred and fifty per cent, 
above the market, the blockade must be 
effectual. Foster's scorching rebuke to 
Gregory in the Commons has made more 
ridiculous than ever the Irish champion of 
treason. You said that the North and the 
South would never come together ! Wait a 
little longer ! You said. Republican insti- 
tutions had failed ! Already the passport 
system is abolished, the political prisoners 
have been released, martial law superseded 
to the civil government, and the placid ocean 
of Peace is gradually replacing the turbulent 
waves of War, so that when the sunlight of 
Union shines upon it, there will be reflected 
back from the glassy mirror myriads of faces 
from a happy, contented people. (Applause ) 

You never will know the herculean ener- 
gies we have displayed. Let me paint the 
picture in my own way. We have nine 



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armies, under nine Generals, composing a 
force equal to nine Waterloos, a dozen Aus- 
terlitzes, two Moscows, and larger than all 
the forces of all the nations that gave battle 
in the Crimea. (Oh !) To give you the 
idea of its magnitude, I will change the 
battle-ground. 

Old England shall represent New Eng- 
land ; and all Europe shall be the field of 
action. Time of preparation, six months ; 
resources, all our own. With the sympathies 
of England and the world against us, we 
have placed twenty thousand men under 
General Butler at Cronstadt ; twenty thou- 
sand^under General Sherman, at Hamburg; 
thirty thousand under General Burnside, at 
Amsterdam ; twenty thousand under Gen- 
eral Halleck, at Odessa ; twenty thousand 
under General Hunter, blockading Vienna, 
on the Danube; forty thousand under Gen- 
eral Buell, at Trieste ; eighty thousand un- 
der General Grant, at Marseilles ; sixty 
thousand under General Banks, on the Bel- 
gian coast ; leaving some three hundred 
thousand under General McClellan, on the 
French shore, after crossing the Potomac of 
the Channel. (Hear, hear,) The distances 
in my picture are not so unequal, although 
populations, fortresses, and language are 
different. Remember that England was the 
point from which I take my sketch. Aus- 
tralia is the California, with another Union 
armyfor the Pacific shore. All those points 
protected, we have England still to repre- 
sent the great Union party in our Northern 
country, with five millions more of armed 
men ready to plunge into battle in defence 
of the nation's life. (Loud cheers.) 

In America, as in England, there is an 
uncoiled spring of magnetic intelligence that, 
wlien set in motion, could only be surpassed 
in grandeur by the artillery batteries of hea- 
ven ! (Applause.) The next mail will bring 
you startling intelligence. Let me fore- 
shadow the plan of action ; the battles are 
already fought ; if reverse were possible in 
one point, victory triumphs in another: the 
Georgians lost their mail arrangements some 
time ago, and now they have had their water- 
works cut off. (Loud laughter.) Gentle- 
men, it is no laughing matter, were j'ou 
citizens of Savannah, to be shut off from all 
communication from your fellow-men, (re- 
newed laughter,) who have already began to 
contemplate the terrible atrocities so vividly 
pictured by Arrowsmith, the reliable corres- 
pondent for the London Times, of Railways 
AND REVOLVERS IN GEORGIA ! (Laughter 
and applause ) 

Savannah is down, Charleston is taken, 
Mobile occupied by Unionists, New Orleans 
besieged, and Memphis occupied ! Two weeks 
after the fall of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, 
the occupation of Clarkesvilleand Nashville, 
the evacuation of Columbus, that Mantua of 
the West, (cheers,) and Norfolk uuder the 



" Stars and Stripes !" Beauregard, the hero 
of fortifications, has become the hero of evac- 
uations ; Pillow keeps up his Mexican repu- 
tation by cutting his way through the forest, 
at the first smell of blood, (laughter,) while 
the battle of Floyd's Bun (laughter) shall 
be commemorated as the Leipsic of Confed- 
erate history. The Confederates are howl- 
ing at England, calling the minister all kinds 
of names, playing the rogue's march, singing 
Perfide Albion in the dim twilight of their 
conspiracy, gnashing their teeth with hate 
and rage, in vain endeavors to cover up 
their ignominy and their shame. 

A voice : " Where is the Sumter ?" Cries 
of " Order !" " Put him out !" 

The Sumter, sir, which comprises one-half 
the Confederate navy, (laughter,) is corked 
up in Gibraltar, with deserted crew, watched 
by the Tuscarora, and out of the reach of 
again being ordered away by your foreign 
office. The Sumter can no more burn inno- 
cent merchantmen, and rob peaceful traders. 
Two of her officers are already on their way 
to the American coast in a Federal war 
ship to receive the just punishment of an 
outraged power ; another part of the pirate 
navy has just arrived at Wilmington, by 
express order of the Confederate Cabinet, 
who have their trunks all packed, and have 
stolen all the money they could lay their 
hands on, preparatory to taking their chances 
of escaping in the Nashville from the doom 
that awaits them. (Cheers.) 

The order to burn the cotton and tobacco 
is under the mistaken idea that it would in- 
volve England in the common ruin with 
themselves. Bear in mind, gentlemen, that 
this cotton and tobacco is solemnly pledged 
for the redemption of the Confederate paper 
and the Confederate loan, and now the Con- 
federate Cabinet have got all the money 
they can sponge out of their deceived sub- 
jects, they solemnly order them to destroy 
the securities on which the loan was paid. 
(Hear, hear.) And all this to deceive Eng- 
land, or rather frighten Ilngland by a threat, 
the very last thing of all others, so history 
states, that would bring this remarkable 
people to look. 

You should know that the crops destroyed 
and the cities burned are not by their own- 
ers, but by the miserable riff-raff, who have 
nothing to lose ; a riff-raff, as one speaker 
beautifully remarked, who represent the dead 
level of humanity, standing on the zero of 
civilization, or wallowing in the mire of their 
own beastly sensuality, instead of floating 
on the wings of a virtuous indignation, or 
poised on the pinions of patriotic intelli- 
gence. (Cheers.) 

General Banks' movement on Winchester 
is only a feint to allow McClellan to push 
on to Fredericksburg, and the nature of a 
conflict that a mail or two will announce may 
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having ordered ^^/ifeen thousand ambulances 
to bear aioay the wounded! (Sensation.) 
Verily, it is a terrible necessity; but the 
spring has arrived — the mouth and the hour 
that calls loudly for victory ; two thousand 
years hence the ides of March will be asso- 
ciated with the history of the Potomac. 



The beautiful Hues of Bayard Taylor are in 
my memory : 

" Then down the long Potomac's line, 
Shout like a storm on hills of pine : 
Till ramrods ring, and bayonets shine ! 
Advance! the chieftain's call is mine. 
March 1" (Loud cheers and applause.) 



GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN'S POPULARITY IN AMERICAs 

iFrom the London American of May 21, 1862.] 



Union Speeches Delivered in England 
during the present American War. — 
" First Series." By George Francis 
Train, of Boston, United States, author 
of "Young America Abroad," "Young 
America in AVall Street," " Young Ame- 
rica on Slavery," &c., &c. T. B. Peterson 
& Brothers, No. 306 Chestnut Street, 
Philadelphia. John A. Knight, No. 100 
Fleet Street, London. 1862. 
The Union Speeches, delivered in England 
during the American war, published by 
Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia, for the 
benefit of "The London American." are 
having a most extensive sale throughout the 
United States. 

They are sold in the streets — they meet 
you at the hotels, and boys are continually 
crying, " Train's Union Speeches," wherever 
you go, in the railway cars from Washington 
to St. Louis, or anywhere else. 

Our American files are full of the most 
complimentary notices. Seldom has a man 
been so successful in touching the heart of a 
great people as has Mr. Train that of the 
Americans. 

As we intimated in a previous notice, we 
are not disinterested in making these re- 
marks, as the great sale of the book will place 
this paper on an entirely independent basis 
as the only American organ in this hemi- 
sphere. We cannot better acknowledge our 
obligations to the American press, for their 
repeated quotations from our columns, than 
by giving two or three extracts as a sample 
of the various notices of this book through- 
out the United States. 

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, so 
ably edited by the distinguished author and 
Central American explorer, E. G. Squier, 
says (April 19) : 

" We have here, in a double column pam- 
phlet of 88 pages, in a buff cover, with a 
medallion head of some eminent Greek, 
which we take to be that of Alcibiades, on 
the title-page, a collection of quaint, but 
thoroughly patriotic, and by no means unphi- 
losophical speeches, delivered before English 
audiences, during the past twelve months, 
by one of the most extraordinary men of the 



day — extraordinary as an embodimeajt of 
spread-eagleism in style, enterprise in busi- 
ness, good sense, much observation and ex- 
perience in the world and its ways. There 
is hardly a trait in the man's character in 
which ojie is not disposed to find fault, yet 
very few which one would like to have 
changed — except, perhaps, that excess of 
modesty and lack of assurance which is so 
painfully apparent in all he says or does. Mr. 
Train's speeches are so utterly different from 
conventional harangues, in style, mode of 
treating the subject matter, and in illustra- 
tion, that at first blush most people are dis- 
posed to pronounce on them unfavorably; 
but a little familiarity with their peculiari- 
ties of form wears away prejudice, and it is 
found that substantially they are equal, if 
not superior, to the formal and portentous 
efforts which are called orations. Put Mr. 
Train's arguments in the pompous phraseol- 
ogy of Webster, and for his familiar illustra- 
tions and idiomatic phrases substitute quota- 
tions from the classics and Latinized formulas, 
and men would look wise and pronounce 
them ' grand.' But the days of sublime bom- 
bast are fast passing away ; huge logical 
fabrics and stately periods are becoming ob- 
solete, and Mr. Train is one of the Apostles 
of the Reformation. ' Long may he wave.' " 

The progress of civilization is certainly 
westward. We little expected to have in 
our exchange list a paper from the Rocky 
Mountains. But here we have before us a 
file of the Rochy Moxmtain News, Denver, 
Colorado Territory, wherein we find that Mr. 
Train's speeches have got up into the moun- 
tains, as well as down in the army, where 
officers and men are using them as text books 
for Union expressions. We quote from the 
News, (April 19): 

" Train's Union Speeches have just been 
received by the last United States mail. 
They are published by T. B. Peterson & 
Brothers, Philadelphia, and were delivered 
by George Francis Train, in England, during 
the present American war, where he has 
been doing good service to the Union cause 
ever since the out-break of the rebellion. 
These speeches should be read by his couu- 



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trymen with as great interest and profit as 
they were listened to by the English of all 
classes, who crowded the places of public 
assembly whenever he was announced for 
a speech. In England he has nobly con- 
fronted exile Secessionists, and prejudiced 
Englishmen, who hated our Republican in- 
stitutions. His speeches are full of fire and 
pure Union sentiments, and a perusal of 
them will be enjoyed by every true and loyal 
American. Mr. Train's eloquence is entirely 
sui generis — he is the founder of the spread- 
eagle school of oratory, and it may truly be 
said, ' none but himself can be his parallel.' " 

The New York Times (under the clever 
management of Henry J. Raymond, the 
Speaker of the New York Legislature, who 
won a- leader in the Times the other day for 
his speech on England at Albany) has been 
most severe in reviewing some of Mr. Train's 
former books, but this time the reviewer 
does him justice. We quote (April 9) : 

"Mr. Train has become an American ce- 
lebrity both at home and abroad, and has 
pretty thoroughly identified himself with the 
peculiar, and sometimes even eccentric char- 
acteristics which distinguish our cis- Atlantic 
youth. Not that Mr. Train still lingers in 
his 'teens or on the sunny side of thirty, do 
we employ the juvenile designation, but be- 
cause 'Young America' is a favorite phrase 
with that gentleman, and, moreover, because 
he has certainly, on all occasions, manifested 
the go-ahead, dashing, devil-may-care style 
and disposition, which are by most foreign- 
ers, and a great many of our own people, 
supposed to place our young folk of both 
sexes far in advance of other races. Mr. 
Train, until very lately, has been chiefly 
known to the world in connection with street 
railways, which he has been endeavouring, 
with a certain measure of success, to intro- 
duce in London and other English cities. He 
has been in this work decidedly a ' fast' train ; 
and the unsophisticated, sober-sided, com- 
mercial Cheerybles of England hav6 contem- 
plated his exploits with commingled wonder 
and awe. Since the outbreak of the South- 
ern rebellion, Mr. Train's talents have been 
devoted to the task of sustaining the Union 
cause in the British Isles ; and the present 
pamphlet, published by Peterson & Brothers, 
contains a rare selection of his speeches and 
letters put forth on that subject during the 
past twelvemonth. The proceeds of its sale 
are to be applied to the benefit of the Lon- 
don American — the only American news- 
paper published beyond the Atlantic. The 
journal is pledged to the service of the Na- 
tional Flag, and opposition to secessionism, 
and it is published under the editorship of A. 
W. Bostwick, Esq. Mr. Train's speeches on 
the American question, on war and cotton, 
and on the future treatment of rebels, have 
made a decided sensation wherever read. 
They are given verbatim and entire in this 



collection, and will furnish the reader with 
the highest order of excitement producible 
by electrical oratory, doubly powerful in the 
present case, because the rhetorical Galvani 
here used his batteries in the best of service." 

The Neiv York World, May 3rd, consid- 
ers that the opposition to Mr. Train's tram- 
way, has arisen from his Union speeches : — 

" George Francis Train and his city rail- 
way scheme has come to grief in London. 
The track has been pronounced a nuisance 
in a London local court, or rather Train has 
been convicted of creating a nuisance for 
having laid the track. This probably dis- 
poses of the subject of city railways in Eng- 
land, as it will be well nigh impossible for 
the irrepressible American to make further 
headway against the prejudice he has excited, 
both against himself and his Yankee notion. 
It was admitted on all hands that the railway 
would be a great convenience and saving to 
the myriads of travellers i i the crowded 
cities of Great Britain, but then it was a 
new thing, and, more than all, was chaper- 
oned by Mr. Train, vjho made himself many 
enemies in Englcmd hy his stirring and 
spread-eagle speeches in defence of his 
native land during the Trent excitement. 
So the reign of lumbering omnibusses and 
expensive cabs and hackney coaches will be 
continued yet awhile longer in England. Mr. 
Train ought to come home and help build 
railroads in the newly-recovered rebel States. 
If his work were as fast as his speeches, 
Washington and Richmond would soon be 
connected by rail." 

The Press of Philadelphia, says that Mr, 
Train is not the first man who has suffered 
for his patriotism, and there cannot be the 
slightest doubt, that among illiberal persons 
in England, and especially in and about Lon- 
don, there exists a feeling strongly antagon- 
istic to Mr. Train, on account of his spirited 
speeches in favor of the American Union. 
Some of these unavoidably touched on the 
apparent negligence of the British Govern- 
ment in respect to breaches of its proclaimed 
neutrality (vessels loading in British ports, 
with arms, ammunition, &c., for the rebel 
South), and John Bull has put his back up, 
in wrath, at any foreigner presuming to pass 
comments upon the conduct of the Govern- 
ment. 

Our space only permits us to make one 
more extract to show that the outrageous 
persecution against Mr. Train, whose only 
crime has been the defence of his country 
abroad, is properly interpreted by the Amer- 
ican journals to that cause : — 

" A verdict against George Francis Train." 
says the Boston Commercial Bidletin, May 
8, " has been rendered against one of Mr. 
Train's horse railroads in London, or rather 
tramways as they are called in England, 
which was complained of by certain parties 
as a nuisance. The most astonishing part 



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of this affair is that the jury in this case 
brought in a verdict on purely ex parte evi- 
dence. After hearing the evidence for the 
prosecution the jury announced that their 
minds were made up and no amount of evi- 
dence could change their opinion, — this is 
fair play with a vengeance ! Not one of Mr. 
Train's witnesses was called, although some 
forty had been got together at great expense. 
Nor was it decided that he had the right of 
appeal. The animus of some of the witnes- 
ses was clearly shown to arise from the poli- 



tical feeling created by Mr. Train's steadfast 
position on the American question and the 
Trent affair, and " Thk London American" 
intimates that the verdict was directed 
against the man and not the tram." 

These few extracts, selected from scores of 
notices, bear out our remarks that Mr. 
Train to-day is one of the most popular men 
in the United States. We hope, in the inde- 
pendence of his nature, he will do nothing to 
forfeit his well-merited popularity. 



THE BOSTON MERCIIAOTS AND GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. 

A LETTER FROM NINETY-FIVE OF THE LEADING CITIZENS 

OF BOSTON, AND STATE SENATORS AND MEMBERS 

OF THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



\^Frovi the London American of April 23, 1862.] 



MR. TRAIN AND THE BOSTON MERCHANTS. 

As a native of the Modern Athens we are 
not surprised to see Boston vieing with the 
Quaker city in acknowledgment of the ser- 
vices which Mr. Train has rendered to his 
country — when such services were most 
needed. 

The Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago 
papers copy Mr. Train's speeches in full. 
The Commercial Bulletin by this mail has 
several columns of Mr. Train's argument on 
slavery — which is attracting, as we antici- 
pated, much attention. 

The Philadelphia Inquirer was one of 
the first journals that copied Mr. Train's 
speeches at length — and as a specimen of 
many notices that are in our files — we copy 
from a leader in that journal of March 29, 
the following extract : — 

America's champion in England — the sword 
and battle-ax of george francis train. 

Among all the pictures hung up by Scott 
in his immortal gallery, no two are more 
perfect in their drawing, or striking by their 
contrast, than those of the slow, 'titanic 
Richard, with his resistless battle-ax, and 
the lithe, lightning-like Saladin, with his 
inevitable sword. Each foe seemed deadlier 
than the other — the ponderous weapon of 
the one felling to the earth whatever sto6d 
before it — the other's bright Damascus cut- 
ting clean alike through a helmet or a 
feather. The union of the two — of power 
with ease, of weight with speed and splendor, 
impossible in the physical swordsman — is 
seen in the rhetorical fencing of George 
Francis Train. In the right hand his coun- 



try's champion bears the crushing battle-ax ; 
in the left, the glittering scimitar; and 
crossing, circling, darting, intermingling, 
now this, now that, now both smite down or 
flash through whatever they may strike. 
Mr. Train's variety and fertility in argu- 
ments and images, and his rapidity in their 
use for deadly thrust or skillful parry, are 
really amazing. He is not, nor aims to be, 
a finished fencer, though grace sometimes 
adds beauty to his power. An impassioned 
gladiator, of intense vitality and infinite 
resources, he throws his soul into his sword, 
and always guards himself by always dis- 
arming or slaying his opponent. To exem- 
plify by quotations wore almost like selecting 
specimen lightnings from an unbroken storm, 
where all that was not flash was bolt, or 
ratiier, where the flash was but the scabbard 
to the bolt. Of scores of passages that we 
have marked in the recently published pam- 
phlet edition of his London speeches, each 
seems as choiceworthy as the other. So we 
take a few at random. You may generally 
tell the Richard from the Saladin, but some- 
times the ax and sword fall and gleam to- 
gether, and the blow both cuts and crushes. 

There are some points [vide one on page 
sixty-two of Petersons' edition,) [Mr. Train's 
speeches have been published by Messrs. 
Peterson, in Philadelphia, and are having 
an extensive sale. — Ed. L. A.] so adroitly 
taken and powerfully put home, that we 
would fain exhibit them. But the whole 
display is one of telling hits — for the British, 
a slash and a courtesy ; for the Rebels, a 
hurricane of deadly blows. For Mr. Train 
is no carpet-knighi, flourishing to show off 



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his grace of posture, or cunningness of fence. 
He is a fio-bter, filled with burniuor indij^na- 
nation, and whose purpose is to kill. If the 
ax of Richard swing, sledgewise, at a lie, it 
is to dash its brains out ! If the sword of 
Saladin dart, thought-like, at Treason, it is 
to cut its heart through ! 

We know Boston well; we know many of 
the gentlemen who have signed the flatter- 
ing testimonial, and, knowing them, we can 
understand just at this particular time, in 
Mr. Train's fortunes, how gratifying it must 
be for him to know that his countrymen in 
the city where he was born are not the last 
to send him words of friendship and of 
praise. 

(Copy.) 

Boston, April I, 1862.- 
Mt Dear Friend Train, — The enclosed 
address was signed by willing hands ; as many 
more names could have been secured, but 
those you have are enough to give you an 
idea of the minds of Bostpn. 

Your patriotic course has been noticed 
with much pleasure by your old friends, and 
you have made many new ones. 

With kind regards, believe me, most truly 
yours, 

(Signed) Alpheus Hardy. 



(Copy.) 

Boston, March 13, 1862. 
George Francis Train, Esq., London. 

Dear Sik, — For your many noble, manly, 
and eloquent speeches in defence of our 
country ; for your sacrifices and labors in 
setting forth the truth, where rebels were 
industriously sowing falsehoods ; for your 
untiring efi'orts in meeting and defeating 
our country's foes, we beg to tender to you 
our heartfelt thanks, and congratulate you 
upon your intellectual victories and suc- 
cesses. 

Thomas Eussel, Elisha Atkins, Curtis 
Guild, Thomas Howe, Albert G. Browne, 
Erastus Sampson, Bailey Loring, H T. 
Delano, E. C. Sherman, J. Willard Rice, 
Charles S. Kendall, Thomas Rice, jun., 
Alpheus Hardy, F. W. Lincoln, jun., A. A, 
Frazer, Osborn Howes, Jos. V. Bacon, F. 
Nickerson, W. T. Glidden, J. A. Andrew 
(Governor of Massachusetts), Thomas Cur- 
tis, B. G. G. Andros, Isaac Taylor, A. A. 
Burwell, Charles C. Evans, Charles H. 
Dillaway, Charles L. Wright, James 0. 
Curtis, Nathaniel C. Nash, James Lee, jun., 
George F. Williams, James P. Bush, 
Richard A. Howes, J. B. Brigham, E. H. 
Baker, Edwin Briggs, H. 0. Briggs, Stephen 
Bowen, Curtis and Feabody, Joseph P. 
Glover, Duncan McLean. Timothy T. Saw- 
yer, George C. Lord, H. Harris, Charles W. 
Scudder, Otis Clapp, Edward Hamilton, 
John J. Baker, J. C. Wyman, John L. 
Swift, Hugh W. Greene, Jared M. Heard, 



0. Webster King, James Brown, E. J. 
Collins, H. B. Wheelright, William F. 
Weld, Frederick Howes, James S. McLel- 
lan, J. S. Farlow, C. J. Morrill, Henry 
Warner, F. H. Forbes, Addison Gage, 
Albert Ballard, D. B. Flint, C. L. Colby, 
John Taylor, B. F. White, Samuel J. Coch- 
rane, Silas Peirce, J. S. Robinson. 

STATE SENATORS OP MASSACHUSETTS. 

Alvah Crocker, John J. Babson, E. 0. 
Haven, Chas. G. Stevens, AY. Griswold, 
C. J. Rus. Ebenezer Gay, B. P. Brownell. 
Stephen N. Stockwell, John C. Tucker, 
Hartley Williams, R. H. Libby, Henry 
Smith, II. Montgomery. 

REPRESENTATIVES OP THE STATE LEGISLATURE 
OP MASSACHUSETTS. 

Henry L. Pierce, John S. E. Rogers, 
Chas. J. McCarthy, A. M. Giles, Stephen 
G. Wheatland, J. A. Gillis, T. L. Hemson, 
A. P. Wright, Allen S. Weeks. 



(Copy of Mr. Train's Reply.) 
18 St. Jaraes's-street, Piccadilly, 

London, April 21, 1862. 
Dear Alpheus Hardy, 

And my many friends in my native city. 
Obey orders if you break owners. I al- 
ways did. — Now I obey the impulses of my 
nature at the risk of breaking myself. Wise- 
acres advised me not to jeopardize my for- 
tunes for my country. If ignorance is wis- 
dom it is folly to be wise ! Do young men 
think old men are fools? — No. Do old men 
know that young men are? — Certainly not. 
Old men think they know more than they 
know — Young men drink more than they 
think. England is very old ; the crow feet — ■ 
the silver hair — the unsteady gait — the slip- 
pered pantaloon — all betoken great age ; 
while instant action in the Trent affair 
proves that there is life in the old man yet. 
America is very young, and, oh ! what terrible 
energy — such a navy — such an army — such 
a Treasury — such self-reliance! Where can 
you find its counterpart ? The world is 
silent, and wonder sleeps on the faces of 
men. Now that America stands first among 
the nations, Americans should be less 
modest, less diffident, and less unassuming. 
Let us be as confident as England is. First 
in Commerce — first in Agriculture — first in 
Invention — first in War — better educated — 
better dressed — Americans ought to be 
more confident, and preach boldly, America 
for the Americans. How wonderful that 
America is the only land where the world 
seeks citizenship ! Do Americans become 
naturalized in England, France, Germany, 
Russia? — No. But our nation's door is 
always open to Europe, Asia, Africa — and 
millions cross the threshold to become 
Americans ! So long as Aristocracy is 
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hate Republics ; but the people of Europe 
will conliinie to love the people of America. 
Cromwell the First is adored in England — 
sometime Cromwell the Second will be 
equally appreciated. God bless my native 
city ! — God bless my native State ! — but, 
before city, before State, God bless my 
Native Land ! 

I am proud of Boston — proud of Massa- 
chusetts, but never before have I felt so 
proud of being a citizen of the United States 
of America. 

We are a proud people ! While the silken band 
That binds the Union of our happy land 
Kemains unbroken, we no doubt may feel, 
Of Foreign iutiuence or of Foreign steel ! 
Turn back the bolts against us hurled — 
Throw down our gauntlet and defy the world ! 



Massachusetts was in the front rank in 
the First Revolution, as she has been in the 
Second. The battle of Baltimore was 
fought on the anniversary of the battle of 
Lexington. 

England has forty dialects — America 
must have but one. Men of the East and 
men of the West must say to the men' of 
the North, and Union men of the South — 
There must be no more local jealousy. 
Americans can have but one thought and 
one destiny so long as they continue to 
be parts of one tremendous whole, whose- 
body Union is, and Likkrty the squl. ■ 

Most faithfully yours, 
(Signed) "^Seorge Francis Train. 



THE RIGHT HO^. LORD CAMPBELL VACATES IN EAYOR 
OE GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. 

THE AMEKICAN CITIZEN AND THE ENGLISH NOBLEMAN. 

[Frovi Hie London American of May 14, 18G2.] 



The Anniversary Dinner of the Royal 
Asylum of St. Anne's Society has long been 
one of the leading features of the great Lon- 
don charities. Established in the reign of 
William III., and supported by voluntary 
subscriptions, it has for more than one hun- 
dred and fifty years proved a godsend to 
thousands of orphans of families who were 
once in prosperity. On Wednesday night 
the Society dined at AVillis's Rooms, under 
the presidency of Lojd Campbell, son of the 
late Lord Chancellor. The three long tables 
were packed with the friends of the children 
of St. Anne, as they are called ; and among 
the invited guests we observed the President 
and some of the Senators of the Republic of 
Liberia, some of the Princes of Oude, in 
their peculiar Indian robes, and other distin- 
guished foreigners. Mr. Adams, the Amer- 
ican Minister, was prevented from being 
present by a previous engagement ; and the 
Japanese Ambassadors were also absent. 
The band was composed of the boys of the 
Society ; and the little orphan girls and boys 
presented a beautiful sight as they were led 
around the tables after the cloth had been 
removed. Lord Campbell gave the usual 
toasts in Lord Dundreary style, when several 
voices in the Hall cried out, "Train ! Train !" 
This was after the President of the Liberian 
Republic had made an effective speech, al- 
luding to having left the United States when 
only six years of age, and being for forty 
years identified with African civilization. 
Captain Rogers, of the Surrey Rifles, went 
to the noble chairman, as the mouth-piece of 



several gentlemen, to ask him to propose 
" Our American Cousins," in order to call up 
Mr. Train, and with the desire to show the 
good feeling existing between the two lands. 
The request was peremptorily refused ; he 
did not wish to have any thing to do with 
the Americans or IMr. Train ; and suddenly, 
in evident ill-humor at the audience calling 
upon Mr. Train, he interrupted a beautiful 
duet on the piano by proposing another 
toast ! Here commenced a battle between 
fair play amd bad nature ; between the people 
and a lord ! — that was amusing in the ex- 
treme. The cheers for the artists onljj 
drowned the hisses for the chair ; and when the 
guests carried their own point, encoring the 
piece and making Lord Campbell sit down, 
the storm of applause was a warning to any 
one who dares to trifle with the vested 
rights of an Englishman. Having carried 
their point, and in order to show how un- 
fairly his lordship had treated Mr. Train, 
the cries were renewed for Mr. Train to take 
the chair, much to the disgust of his lordship, 
who finally left the chair and the Hall, 
amidst groans and hisses, mingled with a few 
cheers of the excited members of St. Anne's. 
Mr. Train immediately was conducted to the 
chair, amid loud cheering, and only one or 
two hisses. His power of pleasing an audi- 
ence is too well known. 

MR. train's speech. 

Ladies and Gentlemen of St. Anne, said 
Mr. Train : — I know not why you thus so 
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unless because it is known that I am one 
of the governors of St. Anne for life — (cheers) 
— and to-morrow night I again volunteer 
my services in aid of the funds of this 
noble charity — by lecturing in its behalf at 
Islington. (Cheers.) How little the world 
really knows England ; how few ai-e aware 
that in this great city there are nearly one 
thousand of these noble charities, supported 
entirely by the generosity of the English 
race. (Applause.) Knowing how difficult it 
is in America to be elected President for 
four years — (laughter) — I lost no time when 
I met you on your last anniversary in send- 
ing my ten guineas, and making myself a 
governor for life in England. (Loud cheers.) 
Perhaps that accounts for your cheers and 
calls upon me to preside — (hear) — the band 
playing not the merry tune of " The Camp- 
bells are Coming," but the somewhat novel 
air of "The Campbells are Going." — 
(Laughter, cheers, and some hisses.) When 
England speaks the world must listen ; when 
Englishmen express their wish, bold is the 
brave man that runs counter to their thought ; 
and this blaze of energy on your part to- 
night gives me — blase as 1 am — that strange 
pulsation described by Sir Charles Cold- 
stream, when he put the blacksmith out the 
window. (Laughter and applause.) Thanks, 
gentlemen, for your kind allusions to my own 
dear land. (Cheers.) Nations, like individ- 
uals, have their reverses and their successes ; 
and what appear to be reverses to strangers 
may be actual successes to those most inte- 
rested. (Hear.) Nations, like men, have 
friends on all sides in prosperity, while ene- 
mies appear on every hillock in adversity. 
Nature arranges these matters — myriads of 
insects surround the horseman when the sun 
shines, only to scatter over the moorland 
the moment the storm appears. (Hear, hear.) 
This noble charity blesses those that give 



as well as those that receive. (Cheers.) 
England is at home with these orphan 
children, and charity begins there. I, too, 
was an orphan — no dear father, no mother, 
no sweet sister, no kind brother, watched 
my early pathway, for I was left on the 
banks of a mighty river, a little orphan boy, 
of tender years, a wanderer in the world ! 
(Sensation.) Therefore, be not surprised at 
my interest in the Society of St. Anne, for 
I have little children ; and as your liberal 
constitution confines your charity to no 
creed, no party, and no country — (loud 
cheers) — some day, who knows, but what I 
may come knocking at your door — not yet, 
perhaps, although, from what the judges say, 
I may have to change my apartments for a 
time — (laughter, and No !) — in atonement 
for having dared to be an American. (No ! 
No !) I mean for having ventured to intro- 
duce a carriage for the people. (Loud 
cheers.) 

Mr. Train gave the toasts that Lord Camp- 
bell had passed over, introducing each with 
appropriate remarks, concluding again pro- 
posing the ladies, and you can imagine 
how loud was the applause when he inti- 
mated that he believed that husbands did 
not, as a rule, give their wives sufficient 
pin money — (loud cheers) — in days of good 
fortune; so that the dear creatures could 
carefully preserve it when adversity made its 
unwelcome appearance. (Hear, laughter 
and cheers.) 

We certainly think that this singular inci- 
dent is worthy of recording, as showing the 
sense of justice in the English mind — the 
actual feeling of goodwill in England towards 
the United States — as well as the somewhat 
novel manner in which an American citizen 
is forced against his desire to occupy the 
chair, so petulantly abandoned by an English 
noble. 



GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN'S LETTER TO THE COMMER- 
CIAL BULLETLN, BOSTON, MASS. 

A FEW FACTS AND ADYICE FOR BOSTON. 



[From the Commercial Bulletin, Boston, May 10, 1862.] 



In one of Mr. Train's friendly letters to 
to us, just received from London, he takes 
occasion to allude to Boston at some length, 
and to offer some suggestions and character- 
istic remarks, which are so pertinent in many 
respects that we make the following liberal 
extracts from his epistle, for the benefit of 
the progressive portion of our readers : 



London, April 19, 1862. 
A looker-on from foreign lands, Boston 
appears to me to have lost much of its former 
prestige. Formerly, who imported the tea ? 
— the Boston merchants. Who the silks 
and the satins? — the Boston merchants. 
Who started the clipper ships ? — the Boston 
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terprise of the country, but the merchants 
and capitalists of my native city? 

The exports and imports of Boston do not 
keep pace with its population and its fame. 
Foreigners sap the lite-blood of our people 
through their mail subsidies, and Cunard 
bears off the honors that ought to full upon 
the shoulders of Americans. Where are the 
Boston packets? Who builds the Govern- 
ment ships ? Why is it that we cannot have 
aline of mail steamers? " A little money, 
and a good deal of puffing," said Joshua 
Bates to Colonel Train, in 1844, " and you 
are sure to succeed." Seventeen years have 
passed, and the Empire City is sapping 
away our life blood, till the bloom has left 
our cheeks, and unless some powerful reme- 
dy is applied, some Chinese commercial trav- 
eller will speak in his note book of the 
modern Athens, resembling, so far as com- 
mercial energy is concerned, an ancient 
Babylon. Let your merchants and your 
bankers show the same energy that the man- 
ufacturers show at Lawrence, at Waltham, 
and at Lowell. Let your active ship owners 
and merchant princes stimulate the nerve 
and patriotism of our brave Massachusetts 
boys at Baltimore, and at Ball's Bluff, and 
the wharves of Boston would again ring with 
the cheering stevedore's voice in discharging 
ships from the Orient — from the North, and 
the South, and the East, and the West. 
Wise men of the East arouse from your 
lethargy, or New York will reduce our 
three-fold hills to a sandbank of indol- 
ence ! 

Greenock was once flourishing when Glas- 
gow was a little village. The Clyde was 
widened, the Broomlaw made, and now 
Greenock is a petty shipping port, while 
Glasgow absorbs a magnificent commerce, 
and has increased her population to three 
times that of Boston. Williamstown. at the 
mouth of the Yarra Yarra, in Hobson's Bay, 
was larger than Melbourne twenty years 
ago ; but now the one acts as a coal tender 
to the steam engine. So it may be with 
Boston. The fossils, molouyxes, mastadons 
and megatheariums, who have so long im- 
peded the expansion of our trade, must 
stand aside, for we must and will have more 
life, more energy, more action ! Let us re- 
vive the days of Billy Gray, and again send 
our ships out into the world. New ideas, 
new thoughts, new blood is wanted. AVhy 
don't you organize a Mutual Admiration So- 
ciety of young merchants, to compose a 
young Exchange ? You want young insu- 
rance offices, young banks, young shipbuild- 
ers, to organize a band of progress. A new 
era of trade is about to open. New England 
is to supersede old England on the highways 
of commerce. High tariffs will give us the 
control of Eastern trade, and a line of 
steamers from California to China should 
bring us always later dates. Circumstances 



make men, but it is only men that can con- 
trol the circumstances. 

Why do your merchants establish their 
branch houses in New York ? Why do your 
young men emigrate to other cities ? It is 
because the oligarchy of the few produces 
paralysis on the many. What chance has 
the young merchant of having his paper dis- 
counted at the old Bank ? Remember that 
the merchants who gave our city fame, did 
it when they were young men. God forbid 
that I have said any thing in this letter re- 
flecting upon any of our commercial generals, 
— but Scott succumbed to McClellan, Came- 
ron to Stanton, and the magnates of State 
street have managed the spoils long enough. 
Our Knights of the Golden Circle have had 
it too long their own way. ■ Our secession 
party had better all secede to New York if 
they like, for we will not permit them any 
longer to keep back the progress of Boston. 
Our three-fold hill is the home of arts and 
the nurse of liberty. 

Dear old Boston ? I cherish every stone 
in her warehouses ; every keel in her ship- 
ping ; every merchant who will add one 
laurel to her former greatness. The moment 
the war is ended there will be an enormous 
trade with the South. When this trade is 
divided, Boston demands its share. I would 
use this motto : New York — its Rights, 
AND Nothing More ! Boston — Its Rights, 
AND Nothing Less ! 

Let our young men be first to establish 
houses in our Southern cities to manage our" 
Northern trade. Boston must be a great 
place of export. Long since we pushed 
England off the track in China, and a new 
era, is now opened to our manufacturers to 
spin yarns and cottons for the cargoes of our 
ships. Open wide the Bulf.ktix's columns 
to any man, who will make two ships grow 
where one was launched before. 

The first important thing Boston ought to 
do is to establish a line of mail steamers to 
England, — make it a joint stock company of 
two millions of dollars, make every exporter 
and eveiy importer take one hundred to five 
hundred dollars each. Steam directly to 
the English shore without stopping at Hali- 
fax, l^on't allow a shilling of foreign capi- 
tal. Let the ship-builder and the ship- 
chandler, the agent and the broker, all take 
a portion of their pay in the shares of the 
company ; and, before the end of the year, 
swift passages would bring fair returns, and 
Boston would regain in prestige during the 
next ten months what it has lost during the 
last ten years. Call it the Union Line, 
managed by a Union company of Union 
men. Send out your own people to manage 
them in England. 

The Barings, the Browns, the Pickersgills, 
have long ceased to represent our people. 
These old firms, for twenty years, have hung 
like a night-mare over our finances, cashier- 



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ing every good enterprise that did not fall 
into their hands. Why do American Secu- 
rities stand so low in England? Simply be- 
cause these firms bear them down to the 
lowest ebb, in order to profit by the flood. 
Take Sampson's anathemas againgt our 
State Stocks, our Railway Securities, during 
the last year, and tell me who inspires them. 
Why, no other than the international bank- 
ers, who profess to be interested in our wel- 
fare. The Barings, the Browns, &c., are 
English houses — not American — and I know 
nearly every man of them to have been seces- 
siouists during the reign of secession. Rumor 
assures me that George Peabody alone has 
realized upwards of three hundred thousand 
pounds in American Securities during the 
Trent affair ; one-half of which he has gene- 
rously given to the London poor. The other 
half, I understand, he is going to generously 
devote to a Union Hospital, for Union 
soldiers who have been mutilated during 
this ungodly war ! 

I would not make these comments were I 
not annoyed to see so many Americans in- 



directly sympathise with those who would 
gloat over our destruction. 

Secessia, thus far, has been a good thing 
for Lancashire and Yorkshire. The cotton 
brokers, bankers, and merchants, since 1857 
sunk two pounds a bale on their two mil- 
lions of cotton. Four millions less per an- 
num, to twelve millions sunk in three years. 
This twelve millions of paper, a dead loss, 
was flooded on the London market until the 
Rebellion stopped the cotton and saved some 
scores of bankers, manufacturers and mer- 
chants from bankruptcy. The disaster is 
taken off the shoulders of the wealthiest 
classes to be thrown upon the backs of the 
poor. I know of nothing more saddening 
than the dismal wail that comes up to me 
from the manufacturing districts — give us 
food or give us labor to purchase food, for 
the times are bad, the sky is dull, no brilliant 
prospect in the future, no hope, no bread, 
the pauper houses are full, and the grave 
yard is yawning for more victims, for of such 
is the kingdom of Secession. 

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. 



MR. TRAIN AN HONORARY GOVERNOR OF THE LAMBETH 

PENSION SOCIETY. 



[From the London American of May 14, 1862.] 



Mr. Train's continued efforts in aid of the 
charities of the metropolis are evidently 
making themselves felt upon the popular 
mind — Mr. Peabody with his money, and Mr. 
Train with his lectures, must do much to 
neutralize the attempts of Secessionists to 
embroil the two countries in war. The fol- 
lowing correspondence tells its own story : 

(Copy of a letter from the Honorary Sec- 
retary of the Lambeth Pension Society) : 

59 Walcot-place, East Lambeth, 
5th of May, 1862. 

Dear Sir, — I beg respectfully to apprize 
you that at the Annual General Meeting of 
Subscribers held at the Vestry Hall, on 
Wednesday, the 30th day of April, you were 
unanimously elected an Honoi'ary Governor 
of this Society, for the benefit conferred by 
your lectures in aid of the funds thereof, — 
I remain, dear Sir, yours truly. 

(Signed) Tiios. Roffey, Secretary. 
To Geo. F. Train, Esq. 



(mr. train's reply. 
18 St. James's-street, Piccadilly, 
London, May 7, 1862. 
Dear Sir, — When a man's motives have 
been misunderstood, and his sentiments mis- 
interpreted, what can be more gratifying to 
him than to be appreciated by those who, 
not knowing him, mistook his warm expres- 
sions of attachment for his own land as an 
unfriendly act towards another country. 

Be so kind as to make known to your 
noble Institution how delighted I am to be 
made an honorary governor of so worthy a 
Society, and say to them that they may com- 
mand my services on any future occasion, 
whenever they think I can add to their funds 
by lecturing to those whose acquaintance I 
am so proud to make. 

By such mutual expressions of good will 
between our respective nations I hope to 
prove to you that Americans wish to culti- 
vate the friendship of Englishmen, not pro- 
voke their enmity. 

Most respectfully. 
Your obedient servant, 

George Francis Train. 
Thomas Roffey, Esq. 



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MR. TRAIN'S LECTURE AT THE WIIITTINGTON CLUB. 



[From the London American of May 21 s#, 1862.] 



On Thursday evening Mr. Train lectured 
at the Whittinffton Club, for the benefit of 
the "Metropolitan Church Schoolmasters' 
Association," the subject bein"^ " Recollec- 
tions of Travels in America, Europe, Asia, 
Africa, and Australia." J. Williams, Esq., 
Churchwarden of Lambeth, occupied the 
chair. Owing to the unfavorable condition 
of the weather — caused, no doubt, by the 
depressed state of the mercury in the 
barometer — the audience was not large, but 
made up in attention and enthusiasm what 
it lacked in numbers. The lecturer gave 
his own experience in the various countries 
through which he had journeyed, embellish- 
ing his earnest facts with anecdote and wit. 
His imitations of the Chinese and other 
characters were well received by his audi- 
ence, and were no doubt, inimitable in their 
way ; at the same time we cannot help 
thinking that originality is always better 
than imitation, and, for ourselvps, we would 
prefer Mr. Train's own features to the parch- 
ment-like countenance of a Chinese mandarin. 

Mr. Train then proceeded to narrate his 
travels and adventures in Turkey, " amongst 
the half-civilized, proud, uncouth, and ob- 
stinate people." He gave, in a rich vein of 
satirical humor, an account of himself and a 
party of friends visiting a Turkish Mosque. 
The attempt on the part of the Turkish at- 
tendants at imposition, after bargaining for a 
certain payment ; but how, when himself and 
party assumed a determined and menacing 
attitude, the Turkish attendants alarmed, 
made the most humble and abject salaams. 
The lecturer's droll and inimitable style of 
mimicry, and occasional bursts of thrilling 
eloquence while describing ancient Stamboul 
and the Turks, quite electrified his audience, 
and drew forth the most hearty and contin- 
ued rounds of applause. From Turkey he 
took his audience into the Sunny Lands of 
Italy, and gave a fervid and eloquent de- 
scription of that then distracted country, 
" the Land of Poetry, Painting, iSculpture, 
and Art," and of her expectant, hopeful, 
patriotic, and determined peoples." 

The originality of idea in which he de- 
scribed what he saw, felt and heard in travel- 
ing through that beautiful land, his graphic 
picture of its present condition and future 
destiny, the touching and eloquent appeal 
to the people of England, in favor of Italy, 
and the fervid manner he called for three 
cheers for the illustrious Garibaldi, so wrought 
up the feelings of his admiring audience, that 
the whole assembly instantly rose from their 
seats and gave, and that lustily, three such 



cheers as an English audience only can give, 
and three cheers more, and one more to 
finish. 

The lecturer then proceeded to France, 
and the French, Louis Napolean and his 
Court, state of parties in France, probabili- 
ties of the future, in which he displayed an 
acumen, tact and knowledge that evinced 
how rapidily correct information and expe- 
rience may be acquired whilst traveling, by 
those who are determined to seek for and to 
obtain it. The lecturer then concluded one 
of the most eloquent orations ever delivered, 
by making some very feeling and telling 
observations on the recent misunderstand- 
ing with our American cousins, reciting a 
beautiful poem, called, "John and Jona- 
than," showing how England and America, 
by mutual charity, forbearance, union, and 
co-operation, may rule the world and give 
laws to the whole human family. 

One of the most pleasing features of the 
evening's entertainment was the enthusiasm 
with which the audience received every refer- 
ence made by the speaker to the better under- 
standing which is beginning to prevail, 
between England and the United States. 
At the conclusion, a vote of thanks, and 
three hearty cheers from the entire assem- 
bly, were accorded to the speaker for his 
able and instructive lecture. In proposing 
the vote of thanks to Mr. Train, the Secre- 
tary of the Society, Mr. Sales, took occasion 
to read the subjoined parody, entitled — 

TRAMWAYS, OR NO TRAMWAYS? 

The Tram, or not the Tram, that is the question, 

Whether 'tis shrewder iu a man to sufTer 

The dingy, narrow and outrageous busses ; 

(Jr. to take tickets for George rrain's Tram-earriage, 

And, by opposing, floor them? To ride, to lounge, 

No more ; and by a lounge, to say we end 

The feet ache, and the thousand natural shocks 

That boots are heirs to. 'Tis a consummation 

Devoutly to be wished. To ride; to lounge — 

To lounge! perchance to muse ; aye, there's tliB kn«| 

For in tliat car of Train's what thoughts may come, 

As we go smoothly o'er the metal coil 

llust wake us up. That's the idea 

Which makes the old bus firm nf so long life ; 

For who would bear the harsh rt^bound of spring ; 

The rattling windows, the fat lady's company, 

The rasp of steel-bound skirts, the timed delay, 

The insolence of coachey. or the chaff 

That modest riders from the con'luctors take, 

When he himself might his safe journeyings mak 

In a fair carriage ? Who wojjld mount the roof, 

To chafe and slip upon a knffe-board bare. 

But that the thought of cancelling the law, 

The most tremendous power which had fixed 

The present Act of Highways, puzzles a cove. 

And makes him rather use the roads we have, 

Than fly to one the statutes know not of! 

Thus Parliament makes cowards of ns all I 

And thus the Foreign Spirit of S'peculatioQ 

Is twaddled over in p.arochial votes : 

And enterprise of great use and value, 

With this reg.ard, are forc'd to raise their lineM 

And lose the name of roadways. 



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GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ON SLAYERY AND UNIYERSAL 

EMANCIPATION. 



"IS AMERICAN SLAYERY TO THE NEGRO A STEPPING-STONE 
FROM AFRICAN BARBARISM TO CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION ?" 

[From the London American of March 19, 1862.] 



Mr. Train. — Slavery, Mr. Chairman and 
Gentlemeu, is as old as the Bible — older, for 
man existed before parchment, and owned 
slaves, before he commenced writing for the 
Times, — in which he lived. (Laughter.) You 
all know why I put the question on the 
paper — wherever the American war has been 
discussed, each speaker seems to have felt 
it his duty to give the Americans a homily 
on slavery. Hence, it occurred to me that 
a subject which had occupied your Broug- 
hams,— your VVilberforces, your Buxtons, 
your Clarksons — for more than a quarter of 
a century, was wide enough for a Forum de- 
bate without the collateral issues which 
stifle sound logic and swamp honest argu- 
ment. (Applause.) It was generous in me 
to take the unpopular side, and, perhaps, 
too bold to rashly throw the gauntlet to the 
clever men that have come in to-night to 
■crush me with abolitionism. (Laughter and 
applause.) But fear not for me, I will make 
good my cause and oblige you to admit that 
American slavery is a stepping-stone to the 
negro from African barbarism to Christian 
civilization ! Hence, a Divine Institution. 
(" Oh," and dissent.) Gentlemen, you mur- 
mur, but you have no right to trifle with the 
jaysterious ways of Providence. Whatever 
is, is right ; man proposes, God disposes. 
He arranged the plan of civilization I defend, 
rot man. 

VVhen you will explain why, in His wis- 
dom, He made one mountain overtop an- 
other mountain — formed one ocean larger 
than another ocean — planned one valley 
wider than another valley ; when you can 
make me understand why He made the oak 
stronger than its neighbor — the rainbow 
more beautiful than the storm-cloud — the 
lily more lovely than the lilac ; when you 
will tell me the reason that Providence or- 
dained that the fair Saxon should be per- 
mitted to express, in the blush upon her 
face, all the emotions of her soul, while the 
African knows not the signification of the 
•word — (applause) — when these things are 
made clear to me, I will tell you how and 



why He has made the African the servant 
of the Anglo-Saxon race, but not till then. 
(Cheers.) They were born and bred ser- 
vants, they cannot be masters. I have been 
in Africa, and nowhere did I learn that the 
Nubian had ever been other than a hewer of 
wood and a drawer of water. For forty 
centuries they have borne the burden. We 
may regret their position, but we cannot 
change the laws of God. The obelisks and 
hieroglyphics of the past have stamped their 
occupations. Africa is a desert — America a 
garden — mind you, I speak of that portion of 
the great Ethiopean country that cultivates 
the English staple of slavery. (" Oh ! it is not 
a' modern institution.") No, I admit that 
slavery is no new institution — did I not 
open the debate with that statement ? It is 
as old as the world of the geologists. All 
ages have owned their slaves. Examine 
the archives of time. Chaos before Cosmo 
— then the lower animals, then man, concen- 
trating something from all, but created in 
the image of his Creator, Man required 
society. Society must have laws. Laws 
constitute government. Hence, government 
is civil law, controlling property, liberty, life. 
This was the primitive state. The people 
elect governors; the most intellectual are 
chiefs. First, it was physical courage, then 
mental energy, superiority ; hence slavery. 
You find it in every age. From Chaldea it 
went to Egypt, to Arabia, to all Eastern 
lands, and finally all over the world, I 
found them everywhere in my travels, but 
under different names. In Homer's day all 
war prisoners in Greece were slaves. The 
Lacedemonian youth were trained to trap 
them, and afterwards butcher them. Three 
thousand prisoners were slaughtered on one 
occasion by these manhj Spartans merely 
for amusement. Three centuries before the 
Christian era, Alexander destroyed Thebes, 
and sold into abject slavery, the entire popu- 
lation. Slaves in chains, received the ban- 
quet guests in the Roman mansions. The 
laws "of the XII Tables made insolvent 
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only forty-two years before Christ, Polio fat- 
tened his lampreys on the slaves that of- 
fended him ! Twelve years before that 
Coecilius Isidorus left 4,116 in his will to his 
heir. Twenty-two centuries, (says Dr. Mor- 
ton,) before Christ, we see in the monuments 
of Egypt, Caucasian and negro as master 
and slave. Gliddon's " Types of Man," 
pictures the negro dancing in handcuffs in 
the streets of Thebes three thousand four 
hundred years ago ! The negro is always 
painted a slave on the vases found in the 
tombs of Etruria. He has not made in 
Africa one progressive step, since his char- 
acteristics were shown on the gravestones of 
the kings. I make these preparatory com- 
ments in reply to the gentleman who said it 
was not purely an English institution, in 
order to bring my points to bear upon the 
question, so as to prove to your satisfaction 
that American slavery is a siepping-stone to 
the improvement of the African. 

England had the best of examples for in- 
troducing slavery into the Western World. 
(Hear.) But let us not trust to profane 
historians — take sacred writers. Read the 
Bible and observe the bondsmen — the laws 
that regulate their sale and purchase. No- 
tice the numbers owned by Abraham, by 
Isaac, by Jacob. Moses, too, had so many, 
he made laws to govern the slave-owner. 
What were the bondsmen and bondsmaids 
of the ancients but slaves ? Dr. Wayland 
says that the Hebrews held slaves since the 
conquest of Canaan — and it was on Canaan 
that the badge of servitude fell. Abraham 
owned one thousand. Even Whitfield did 
not call it a sin. Read 25th Leviticus — 
read 21st Exodus — where the slave is called 
money — " When his master shall bore his 
ear through with an awl, and he shall own 
him for ever." Polygamy, divorce, murder, 
incest, the Bible precepts forbade, but 
placed no ban on slavery I find no law 
against it in the Scriptures. Even Moses 
delivered up a fugitive slave — (hear, hear) — 
but it does not follow that I advocate it in 
perpetuity. (Continued applause.) The 
fact is, men in our day would be hung for 
what then hardly occasioned a rebuke. 
" Servants obey your masters," was the Di- 
vine law, anc^St. Paul endorsed it. If the 
Author of Christianity had not approved of 
it, His goodness and his honor must neces- 
sarily have rejected it. The Old Testament 
sanctioned it, the New gives no word nor 
sign against it — but laws regulating it are 
recorded in both. St. Paul had time to give 
directions about the cut of a coat, or to say 
polite words to King Agrippa, but nowhere 
records anything against slavery; on the 
contrary, in his letter to his friend Philemon, 
to whom he consigns his own son Onesimus 
— " Whom I have begotten in my bonds." 
Does he not say " which in time past was to 



thee nnprojitahle, but now profitable to thee 
and me?" One would suppose that slavery 
is purely of American origin, if trained by 
the modern philanthropists, but it seems to 
be a plant of very ancient growth. But 
pass by the barbarous days, come back to 
Christian England. Saxon Alfred made 
laws as to the sale of slaves, and it is well 
known that in Saxon and Norman times the 
children of the English peasantry were sold 
in the Bristol market like cattle for expor- 
tation ! — some went to Ireland, some to 
Scotland. Wat Tyler's rebellion in 1381 
arose from serfdom. Edward VI. branded 
Y on the breast of any one who lived idle 
for three days, and the buyer owned him for 
two years as his slave. He could oblige 
him to work by beating and chaining him ; 
let him absent himself for a fortnight, and, 
with a brand upon his cheek, he was made a 
slave for ever ! His neck, his leg, or his 
arm could be circled with rings of iron, and 
these were Saxon England's laws ! Even in 
l.o47 a runaway apprentice became by 
statute a slave. This hasty glance at the 
past brings us down to the base of our ar- 
gument, when England stamped African 
slavery into the American soil. Sir John 
' Hawkins (1563) was not long in following 
the Portuguese in profiting by the Congo 
and Angola traffic in Africans — perhaps 
England, even at this early day, thought of 
this method of Christianizing Africans. 
(Laughter, and " Good.") Queen Elizabeth 
was an accomplice, and the English Anne 
was joint partner with the Spanish Philip in 
dividing profit in the 144,000 slaves stipu- 
lated for in the Assiente treaty ! P]ngland, 
I say, may thus early have had the praise- 
worthy idea of civilizing this God-forsaken 
race by firmly planting in the West the 
Bible staple of slavery. (Laughter.) Eng- 
land has been consistent from the first — all 
the Georges were engaged in it. The dia- 
monds in the Royal Crown, now worn by 
your Queen, were bought by the proceeds 
arising from the sale of your negroes, and as 
your former Queens, your Government and 
your people were all so largely engaged in 
the traffic, it is most unfair to presume that 
they had any other motive in view in carry- 
ing on this wholesale trade in human flesh 
than the Christianizing of the savage ! 
(Laughter.) Even the capital in which you 
established the East India Company and the 
Bank of England, was furnished from the 
profits of the African slave trade. 

Any one at all acquainted with English 
characteristics — knowing how disinterested 
they are in all matters of personal interest, 
and how little they care for that which most 
nations seek for — money — and how all their 
efforts for a period of centuries has been to 
benefit other lands instead of their own — 
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unpleasant rumors that have got abroad that 
England had any sordid object in view. 
(Laughter, and hear, hear.) Assuming, then, 
the generous view, that the civilization of 
the African was the object, I proceed to 
condense my whole argument into a few 
paragraphs to show how successful England 
has been in her philanthropy, and during 
the next five minutes, will convince the most 
skeptical, that American slavery to the 
negro is a stepping stone in the right direc- 
tion. In order to bring my point straight 
home to your comprehension, I shall lay be- 
fore you bone by bone, the skeleton on 
■which I base the argument. I shall ana- 
lyze and divide the whole question into affir- 
matives and negatives, and making you ac- 
knowledge individual points, I shall compel 
you to admit the collective argument. — 
("We'll see !" and applause.) 

PHYSICALLY. 

Is not the meagre, thin, long, chop-fallen, 
half-starved savage, as you find him a pri- 
soner of war in negro land, a barbarian, com- 
pared to the happy, contented, well developed, 
strong, hearty, well clothed, well fed, negro 
slave in his Christianized state of American 
Slavery? Answer me, gentlemen — yes, or 
no, as I give you point by point. (" Yes," 
and applause.) That much admitted, take 
him INTELLECTUALLY and MENTALLY. The 
physical effects, the intellectual — take care 
of the body, and you improve the mind. The 
muscles of your brain grow by action, as the 
muscles of the body become stronger by 
exertion. ('' That's so,") A man's arm is 
like a woman's before he trains for the prize- 
fight ; but action makes the cords appear 
like iron ; so it is with the mind, hence the 
emaciated physique gives perforce an emaci- 
ated intellect. I ask you to look on the 
miserable, weak-minded animal in Africa, 
who knows not the sweets of labor, or Bible 
schools, Bible societies, or Christian prea- 
chers — makes no statues, paints no portraits, 
writes no books, and contrast him in his 
improved state in the West, where he has a 
higher order of talent to shape his thoughts ; 
— look at moles, and your ideas become 
moley ; look at mountains, and they become 
mountainous. In Africa, he had no higher 
example. In America, the Caucasian race 
has elevated his intellect, as it has improved 
his physique, and I ask again, has not the 
barbarian, which you admit in the one case, 
made progress in the other ? (" Yes," and 
applause.) 

COMMERCIALLY. 

The African savage never benefitted man- 
kind as an African savage (for their palm 
oil, their elephants' tusks, and traflfic in 



human flesh is the commerce of the white 
man ;) but as an American slave has he not 
grown corn, cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco, and 
cofiee. and thus helped to civilize the world 
more than all the missionaries in Christen- 
dom ? (" Yes," and applause.) 

FINANCIALLY, 

The argument applies — what finance has 
he in Africa ? No circulating medium, no 
exchequer bills, no currency, nothing but 
human beings constitute the coin in their 
barter trade ; while in America, does not 
his labor, based on the commerce it produces, 
regulate exchanges, rule markets, stimulate 
finance ? Is not the Atlantic Ocean bridg- 
ed with letters of credit? — perhaps not now, 
since our blockades is so effectual — (laugh- 
ter) — proving that the African financially 
stands in a higher position as an American 
slave than as a negro barbarian! ("Yes," 
and applause.) 

MECHANICALLY. 

What arts, sciences, instruments ; what 
ingenuity has the negro in his barbarian 
state ever shown ? Nothing ; but in our 
American slavery, he has seen in the white 
man a higher order of mankind ; and there 
are now mechanics, carpenters, smiths, metal 
workers among slaves. Will any gentleman 
dispute it ? (No.) Am I stating facts ? 
(Yes.) 'J hen gentlemen, take care, or I shall 
make you admit the entire argument, piece 
by piece, before I come to the climatrix. — 
(Laughter.) 

SOCIALLY. 

I see gentlemen, what you are all waiting 
for — you all expect me to be floored upon 
the moral, social and religious point of view. 
You have admitted my former propositions, 
believing that I should break down upon the 
moral view of the subject, forgetting, as you 
do, that all the previous points which I have 
made in the affirmative — physically, intel- 
lectually, COMMERCIALLY, MECHANICALLY 

(and I could have added agriculture and 
manufactures) — bear direct op the social, 
religious, and moral aspect of tlie case. But 
I do not require their assistance, although 
each one of them proves the affirmative of 
the question under discussion. I now take 
it up SOCIALLY. The African has no social 
ties, no sacred rights, no family pleasures, 
and is a cannibal; while as an American 
slave he goes to church, sings psalms, laughs, 
reads tracts, shoots birds, dances round the 
plantation fires, and is the happiest laborer 
I have ever witnessed in my extensive 
travel. — (Cheers, and " That's so" from the 
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American slave never eats his own or other 
people's children, that American slavery is 
Christianity contrasted with the barbarism 
of cannibalism? (Applause, "yes," and 
" no," from two voices.) The Hon. Colonial 
Secretary from Sierra Leone says no ; then 
I will give him an opportunity of proving the 
negative ; but I have with me a higher au- 
thority that says yes. Although perhaps, 
not strictly parliamentary, will you allow me 
to read a letter received from one of the 
most distinguished men of this century with 
whom I have been corresponding, which 
admits what the gentlemen from the African 
coast denies. The letter, gentlemen, is from 
the distinguished poet and abolitionist, M. 
Victor Hugo. You may remember his 
celebrated picture on the John Brown raid 
— simply a black fore-ground, with a man 
hanging in the distance, while the light of 
abolition is breaking in the sky beyond ! 
Victor Hugo wrote a letter to the engraver, 
commemorating the act as the dissolution of 
the American Empire. On this I wrote him, 
proposing to prove to him, as I shall do to 
you before I get through, that Mr. Seward's 
prophetic Irrepressible Conflict, as inaug- 
urated by the John Brown raid {in which 
Mr. Seivard was in no way implicated.) that 
BO far from destroying our republic it would 
give it a lease for another hundred years. 
(Cries of " Read, read.") I will translate it 
into English. 

*' Your opinion, sir, is true upon the first 
phase of slavery, but it is not all so in the 
second. It is evident that slavery wrested 
its prey from the eaters of human flesh, but 
it has only progressed in regard to cannibal- 
ism ; whenever it finds itself in the presence of 
Christianism, and, above all, of human reason, 
it must abdicate under penalty of becoming 
monstrous. — The persistency of the South- 
ern States in slavery is the greatest moral 
deformity of the nineteenth century. (Ap- 
plause.) You see, sir, that we differ in our 
points of view. However I am not for that 
less sensible to the sentiment of sympathy 
expressed in your honorable letter in such 
warm words, and I pray you to accept the 
assurance of my esteem. 

(Signed) " Victor Hugo. 

"Hautevitle House, Feb. 2.5, 1861." 

In reply, I argued with him as with you, 
by saying, as he admits the first phase of my 
proposition, a system that rescues humanity 
from man-eaters must have some divinity 
in its origin — Religiously and morally, all 
the heads under which I have classified the 
arguments are subordinate to this — the bar- 
barian meets civilized man and improves as 
far as he can. Education may develop, but 
cannot originate mind. Color is not the 
only thing that marks him. Yoxi must first 



put inside his thick skull nine cubic inches 
more of brain! He may possess the two 
hundred and forty-eight bones, the four hun- 
dred muscles, the fifty-six joints on hands 
and feet, the twenty miles of arteries that 
make the white man — and those who ap- 
proach them in summer will testify that 
they also have the seven millions of pores 
(laughter) ; but the brain, the organ of 
thought is not there ; for the negro, while a 
man in body, is in mind a child. 

Three types of man landed in the Ameri- 
can forests, and are well represented by 
three classes of the horse tribe — the Indian 
was the Zebra, you could never tame him ; the 
white man was the Arab horse, the living pic- 
ture of strength and progress (hear, hear) ; 
the negro was the donkey (laughter), who did 
the labor, and in that way carried out his 
destiny. 

All men are not born "free and equal." 
I deny it. The Creator's plans cannot be 
thwarted by a turn of words in the nation's 
declaration of independence. Jefferson may 
have intended to say that all white men were 
born free and equal ; but if he did so he was 
wrong, because they are not. All are differ- 
ent — no two things are alike — no drop in 
the ocean, leaf in forest, sand in mountain, 
fish in sea, flower in garden. How, then, 
can races be the same ? Each land has its 
fauna, its flora, and its humanity. This has 
been so in all ages. The Arab, the Egyptian, 
the Negro, are as distinctly chiseled in the 
monuments forty centuries ago as are the 
wild dog, the greyhound, and the turnspit. 
The type never dies! (Applause.) Geology 
shows the different strata of the earth ; 
ethnology teaches us the different strata of 
men — the negro is the Paleozoic. 

As there are no teachers, no schoolmasters, 
no mechanics' associations, no Christian 
ministers, nothing for the African to look up 
to in Africa, how expect improvement, 
morally or religiously, unless transplanted to 
another climate, where his eyes, his ears, 
and senses are taught, without much effort, 
the common rudiments of education. Con- 
centrate your thoughts on Lilliput, and 
your mind becomes Lilliputian ; but centre 
your gaze on Gulliver, and your views con- 
sequently become Gulliverian! (Applause.) 
My forty minutes are nearly exhausted, and 
I ask you to run along the edge of my argu- 
ment and tell me if I have not proved be- 
yond the shadow of a doubt that American 
slavery to the Negro is a stepping-stone from 
African barbarism to Christian civilization. 
(Loud cheers, and " No" from Mr. Edwards.) 
One gentleman says no, and yet all have 
admitted, as I put bone and bone together, 
and laid before you my plan, that, carrying 
as you have done any portion of the argu- 
ment in my favor, it naturally bears with it 
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have raised were merely the veins, arteries, 
blood, and flesh, that I have filled into the 
framework ; and if I have occupied a few 
minutes more, it is in order to put boots, 
and trousers, and coat, and hat upon my 
Christianized African, and let him stand be- 
fore you an improved human being, with 
nine cubic inches less of brain than the Cau- 
casian race, that has assisted him up one 
stepping-stone towards the temple of Chris- 
tian freedom. (Cheers.) 

But Mr. Edwards said no ! I will then 
convince him, by firing another arrow in my 
quiver. Read the recent parliamentary cor- 
respondence of Dahomey, regarding the in- 
human acts of that barbarous people. King 
Gezo, not many months ago, died. In ac- 
cordance with their usual custom, the great 
king must have a great funeral. Seven 
thousand negroes were to be tortured, mu- 
tilated, and burned to ashes over the funeral 
pile of the dead king — but owing to the high 
price of slaves, arising from England's rav- 
enous demand for cotton — (cheers) — still, as 
you observe, at her old work of Christian- 
izing the Heathen — (laughter) — negroes 
commanded too high a price at Dahomey to 
permit the royal treasury to luxuriate in 
such gigantic torture, hence the successors 
of the dead king tore away from their fami- 
lies only eight hundred little children and 
old men, young girls, and aged women, and 
sacrified them with their instruments of tor- 
ture in honor of the dead chief, in accordance 
with the barbarous funeral rites of that un- 
happy land 1 

By purchasing slave-grown produce, Eng- 
land again did something for civilization in 
this case, as she did three centuries ago, 
when Sir John Hawkins landed his first 
cargo on the American shore. (Laughter 
and applause.) Now, as Mr. Edwards can- 
not give me a single instance where any 
American slave on the American plantation 
has been sacrificed over the funeral pile in a 
similar manner — or point to a single instance 
of Cannibalism, he certainly must now admit 
by this last shot in my locker, that a system 
which does away with this inhuman practice 
— that Lord Falmerston and Lord John 
Eussell have in vain tried to uproot in Africa 
— nmst be beneficial to the African bar- 
barian, and gives me the afiirmative of the 
argument that To the Negro, American 
Slavery is a stepping-stone from African 
barbarism to christian civilization. 

Several speakers were on their feet at 
once in reply — and each in his turn attacked 
Mr. Train in the stronghold he had built 
around his argument. He baffled his antag- 
onists by the way he put the question — they 
evidently looking at the debasement of the 
■white man more than the elevation of the 



negro. So many were desirous of speaking, 
Mr. Train moved the adjournment of the 
debate to Monday evening, March 17th. 
This was carried, and on that evening the 
hall was packed — most of the speakers being 
against Mr, Train — who rose to 'order, and 
asked them not to argue on what he was 
going to say, but upon what he had said. 
He told them that he had paved one stepping- 
stone — and asked them how they were able 
to interpret his thoughts. " How do you 
know," said he, "but what the real stepping- 
stone is Universal Emancipation." 

CONCLUSION OF MR. TRAIN'S 
GREAT SPEECH ON SLAVERY. 

Mr. Train says America's mission is for 
white people — England's for blacks — hence 
recommends Lord Shaftesbury to give his 
attention to Africa — as a wider field for his 
well-known philanthropy. This speech will 
attract attention by the boldness of its 
theories — and the new light he has thrown 
upon some old ideas. As he has so often 
foreshadowed events during the Revolution, 
he may have again anticipated the policy of 
the Administration. 

Mr. Train, — Inasmuch, Mr. Chairman and 
gentleman, as this is the fifth night of the 
debate — and inasmuch as thirteen experi- 
enced debaters have been firing hot shot into 
the fortification I built around my argument 
— while only two speakers came to my 
assistance — and inasmuch as I adopted the 
unpopular side of the question to give life to 
the debate — the least I can expect is that 
you will yield to me the same fairness you 
have given to others — (hear, hear) — and not 
interrupt me unless under mis-statement — 
no matter how direct may be the fire of my 
batteries — until I have fully satisfied you 
that the point I took when opening the 
debate has not in any point been assailed. 
(Oh, and laughter.) I knew the result at the 
start — I knew the question was so worded 
that nothing could shake my position. — 
Hence, as no one has confuted my argument 
— (oh) — I have a right to demand the same 
latitude in reply that you have accorded to 
others — (hear) — and if I tread rather uncere- 
moniously on the prejudices of the English 
people— you should remember how severely 
I have been attacked. So fair play and no 
favor— (hear and applause) — and I will do 
my best to pay in gold the paper drafts 
which have been made upon me — and if I 
use the weapon of ridicule and satire, it is in 
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wliieh I shall confound my enemies! (Hear, 
hear.) In my opening speech I met their 
figures of rhetoric with my figures of arith- 
metic, making all admit the .'steppinfi-^tone, 
save those so blind that they would not see ! 
— That admitted, they wished me to go fur- 
ther, hence ripped up the whole question of 
the African slave-trade, West Indian eman- 
cipation, and American slavery. — Proving 
my first step, to the satisfaction of every 
intelligent mind, it may come to pass, before 
I conclude, that I am more of an abolitionist 
than you are. ("Oh," and cries of "You 
have a queer way of showing it.") Does not 
the order of nature give sensation before 
thinking- — creeping before walking — crying 
before language — ^and coarseness before cul- 
ture—superstition before intellectual educa- 
tion — experience before wisdom — and barba- 
rism before civilization ? (Hear, hear.) So, 
American slavery precedes the emancipation 
of the African slave ? (Applause.) I kept 
my argument rattling against the buJl's-eye 
of the question, while my opponents did not 
hit the target at all — ht^nce it is useless for 
me to bring any more facts to bear upon the 
stepping-sfiJite, — but will take up one by one, 
as my memory serves me, the points of the 
other debaters, in order to show how ridicu- 
lous by a little analysis they can be made to 
appear. (No personalities!) The gentle- 
man says no personalities, and yet they have 
endeavored to hammer me into a gold leaf. 
— I did intend commencing at the alpha, 
walking along towards the omega — but as 
there are many new speakers here to-night, 
I will reverse the argument, walking back- 
ward snail-like, as some of the other speakers 
have done (laughter), by taking up the last 
debater. His great point was, that slavery 
was based on piracy, robbery, debauchery, 
and murder — hence it could have nothing to 
do with Christianity. 

Now, gentlemen, this is the platform on 
which the world was built. (Oh ! and dis- 
sent.) You dissent — but here are a few 
thousand years of history crowded into one 
paragraph. — Cain murdered — Lot sotted — 
Onan onanized — David Uriahized — Moses 
plotted — and Jacob cheated — Solomon Mor- 
monized — Noah inebriated — Peter lied — 
Judas betrayed. — (Sensation.) — Yet, while 
all these bad men were slave owners — each 
representing a fair type of the Confederate 
Cabinet — none of them were so debauched 
in immorality as that cabinet have been by 
Negro slavery, as to have been guilty of the 
terrible crime of high treason against the 
grandest government the world ever saw ! 
(Loud cheers.) The gentleman gave such a 
picture of the African slave trade, showing 
the manacled position of the slave, that an 
ungenerous miud might have had the sus- 
picion — as he comes from that enterprising 
Nutmeg State of Connecticut — that he had 



commanded a slaver, (laughter, and hear, 
hear,) and the details he gave as to slave 
owners selling negro babies by the pound, 
might lead'us to suppose that at some period 
of his life, he was also directly interested in 
the domestic slave trade as well (Oh, and 
laughter.) He says, while holding high my 
country's flag during the reign of Secessia in 
England, he was one of the loudest to cheer 
me ; but he felt it to be a disgrace to be an 
American — to hear the Union champion 
advocating negro slavery, (applause) ; and 
yet, before I finish, I shall prove myself 
more of an abolition-st than he is. (Hear, 
hear, and prove it.) His abolitionism, like 
Lord Shaftesbury's, is theoretical — mine 
may prove practical — he talks, I act. — My 
plan may benefit the slave by being honest, 
while Exeter Hall abolition'sm is the basest 
kind of hypocrisy. (Oh, cheers, and dissent ) 
He says, a great statesman, whose superior- 
ity Mr. Train acknowledges — fell from the 
height hehad raised himself in New England, 
by selling himself to the slave owners, and 
he compliments me by galvanising me into 
so important a personage, that a storm of 
indignation would reach me from Boston, 
as greeted him there on his arrival from 
Washington. — Now, Mr. Chairman, Jirs/, 
I never acknowledged Mr. Webster my 
superior. (Loud cheers, laughter and ap- 
plause.) Se-niLfl, My inherent modesty (re- 
newed laughter,) would not allow me to 
suppose — that my humble opinions would 
stimulate the American people into exhibit- 
ing any such feats of gymnastics as he has 
pictured. (Laughter.) They did give up a 
fugitive slave in my native city— and by 
obeying the sacred mandate of the law 
under the Constitution — proved how little 
cause the conspirators had for the ungodly 
rebellion which agitated our land. (Cheers.) 
Several speakers plunged into the horrors 
of the middle passage as he h&d done. 
Admit, that England for three centuries has 
Macadamized the bed of the Atlantic Ocean 
with the skulls of the negro. (Oh !) Admit 
all these horrors that weigh heavy upou 
England's shoulders, but acknowledge that, 
had she allowed the same free trade in the 
emigration of the black man, that regulates 
other ruces, how many millions of lives she 
might have saved in her praiseworthy efforts 
to Christianize the heathen. (Oh, and 
cheers.) It was the squadron on the coast 
— the mistaken philanthropy, in making 
the negro emigration (7/<'7'//, th it caused the 
horrors of the middle passage, while my plan 
would have been to have opened the way in 
comfortable ships like the Great Eastern— 
(cheers) — which would have carried out the 
Exeter Hall platform on a more Christian 
basis — (oh ! and applause) — but with my 
permission she shall not bring any more of 
them to America. (Laughter.) America's 



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mission is to look out for white men. while 
England"? mission is to Christianize the 
blacks. Why should Ensrland give all her 
attention to slavery as it exists in America? 
Why not talk with Portugal and the Em- 
peror of Brazil ? Why not send their aboli- 
tion speakers to Cuba instead of taking in 
that old slave catcher and slave trader — 
repudiating old Spain, whose Government 
stocks she refuses to quote on the London 
Stock Exchange — into a full partnership, 
into the Anglo-Gallic fillibustering firm re- 
cently established in the garden land of the 
Monteznmas ! (Cheers.) How is it that 
England has no sympathies for her own col- 
liers, her own miners, and hardrworked 
operatives? (Ohl) How is it that Lord 
Shaftesbury and the Duchess of Sutherland 
have selected th's one race for their especial 
protection? No word of kindness for the 
white Circassian sold in the slave marts of 
old Stamboul I No pity for the poor Boers 
in Southern Africa I No thought of the 
red Indian she formerly sold on English 
soil — nor a word of pity for the dark native 
uf Hindostan, she sent to wear his life away 
on the sugar plantations of the Mauritiu.-^. 
No sympathy for the yellow-faced son of 
Confucius whom I have seen her kidnap in 
the China Seas, and bear him away under 
the philanthropic flag of England, through 
similar horrors of the middle passage, 
vividly described by the last speaker — to 
perish on the dry arid rocks of the Chincha 
Islands, where he digs the guano which is 
sold in England to cultivate the soil in order 
to give yon food — (Cheers — or sells him 
under the Coolie system to the Spanish 
planter, where he ekes out a few years of 
miserable existence, and lays him down in a 
stranger grave, far away from the land of 
Jiis ancestors, with this simple epitaph — 
tcorked to death through the Christian fjhilan- 
thrtjpy of Ex-.ter Hall. (Oh ! and hear, 
hear.) 

I say, why is it. gentlemen, that England's 
sympathies are only for this Ethiope race ? 
I will tell you — simply because it was fashion- 
able — and one of my objects in bringing 
forward this question is to smash the Eexter 
Hall platform into so many pieces that its 
most enthusiastic disciples will never be able 
again to connect th m together. (Dissent.) 
Abolitionism in England, means the destruc- 
tion of the Western Empire I More hate, 
envy, jealousy against the white race, than 
sympathy, affection, or love for the black. 
(Oh ! and cheers.) Northerner as I am by 
birth and education. I have been so often 
insulted at the hospitable table of England 
in defending my country, my people, and my 
flag against the question of the negro, which 
was not a Northern institution, that it almost 
made a pro-slavery man of me, as my nation- 
ality was sufficiently wide to cover all the 



institutions of my country. (Cheers.) In 
this. I agree with Webster. I know no 
North, no South, no East, no West. — when 
England abused America on account of an 
institution which she has planted there— her 
vituperations against my own land were too 
apparent not to be offensive — and living in 
England throughout the entire reian of Seces- 
sia. I saw her inconsistency by falling sudden- 
ly in love with the treacherous reptiles that 
raised their fabric of treason on the corner- 
stone platform of American slavery, and my 
annoyance culminated into disgust, when I 
saw Lord Shaftesbury refuse to attend a 
meeting of clergymen in that same Exeter 
Hall— a meeting of Christian preachers 
called together to offer up prayers to Al- 
mighty God for peace between England and 
America! (Hear, hear.) You see that 
when sixty millions of white people are to be 
saved. Lord Shaftesbury does not wish to' 
embarrass the Government. (Shame.) Now 
you have the secret of why I put this question 
before you. It was to show the Dishonesty, 
the Humbug, the Cant, of the Exeter Hall 
disciples, who would involve sixty millions of 
respectable white people in war to gratify 
their selfish appetites for African charities. 
(•• Oh." and •• hear, hear I"') Better be an 
honest American slave than a dishonest 
Anti-Slavery freeman I Servitude like 

' happiness is only comparative — good is 
comparative. — so is evil. — so is light, heat, 
air, — all comparative. Liberty, when mis- 
taken for license — servility when mistaken 

, for civility — is as bad as to place the servant 
in the master's chair. The Creator made the 
world to suit himself — not Exeter Hall. — 
His tenants were of his own choosing. 
Having a taste for colors, as shown in the 
rainbow, the dolphin, the flower-garden, and 
the forest, he carried out his fancy in color, 
shape, and capacity of man. — (Applause) — 

I In nature large fish swallow little fish, — large 

I trees draw the sap from little trees — large 
oceans drink up the rivulets.— so that race 
that possesses most governing power, rules. 
(Hear.) The negro never was Governor — 
American slaves sleep under the palm tree — 
quote scripture, and have fewer crimes than 
any other race, — as the churning of milk 
maketh butter — as the ringing of the nose 
bringeth blood — so England's Abolition non- 
sense was introduced on the Slave question 
in order to bring contention among the 
Americans. (Hear, hear, and applause.) 

i To show how well they have succeeded. I 
point you to the present Civil War. where 
brotner hews down brother with a blood- 

1 thirstiness that ought to satisfy the most 
rabid disciple of Exeter Hall. (Oh !) Leave 
America alone for awhile — Withdratr thy 

I foot from thy neighbor's hou^e, ye Abolition- 
ists — It^st he be iceary of thee and so hnte thee! 

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of the eaccle in the air— the way of a ser- 
pent on the rock— the way of a ship in the 
waters of the sea" — before he tries to raise 
the neocro above the kitchen. Since Ham 
rejoiced at Noah's intoxication — since Judah 
dishonored his child — since Moses broke the 
Commandments on the mountain — the negro 
race has swept the house, made the tires, 
done the cooking, and always gone out to 
service Tribulation worketh patience- — 
patience maketh experience — experience 
bringeth hope. Hence, I believe, with Ed- 
ward Everett, "that American slavery is to 
be the ultimate civilization of Africa" — 
Nature's laws are indestructible. The 
Creator first made the inanimate world — 
then the vegetable kingdom — then the ser- 
pent tribe ; — out of them came the fish, then 
the fowls of the air, then the brute creation ; 
but his master piece was man ! He divided 
the world into two climates, and peopled it 
with his children. I believe with Agassiz 
that the world was peopled by nations, not 
in pairs. As there were degrees in veget- 
able, animal and mineral kingdoms, so he 
instituted degrees in the human race. — 
Naturalists point out our ancient stepping- 
stones — the monkey — the ape — the baboon 
— cutting off the tail of the gorilla in order 
to make the Australian — (laughter) — the 
lowest type of man — then the African— the 
Malayan — the Mongolian — the Caucasian — 
making up that noble specimen of civiliza- 
tion, the Englishman — ("hear," and ap- 
plause) — finishing off with the progressive 
type of man — who combines the virtues of 
the past, and endeavors to avoid its vices — 
THE American ! (Cheers and laughter.) One 
gentleman asks if the separation of families 
at the slave auction, and the sale of your 
own flesh and blood, is an instance of civil- 
ization ? Certainly not. Such is not now 
the case — ^^public opinion has become the 
public law — families are not divided as in 
former times. (" Oh !" and " It is not true !) 
I know that I am right, gentlemen. I saw 
the advertisement for the sale of the negroes 
on Pierce Butler's estate in Georgia— in 
bankruptcy — children were not separated 
from their parents, nor wives from their 
husbands, and, since which, this exception 
has now become the rule. You are not the 
first to speak about selling one's flesh and 
blood — hence, I remind you of the law of 
England, that permits you to seduce the 
poor man's child, but only compels you to 
pay two shillings and sixpence per week for 
its maintenance. (No !) I say it is the law 
of bastardy — (hear, hear)— and if the in- 
human planter does dispose of his own flesh 
and blood, as you have alleged, so long as 
you continue to pay the present prices for 
cotton, he does not sell his own otfspring for 
half-a-crown per week. (" Hear," laughter, 
and cheers.) The slavery of your army 



white man is more abject than the Southern 
negro ! — " One is voluntary, the other is 
not.") Exactly, hence the soldier who 
would desert is as much a slave as the negro 
— I believe there are as many slaves who 
would not accept freedom as soldiers. The 
slaves cling to their masters from affection; 
while the soldier or the operative remains 
solely for his food and raiment — what do 
they care about their officers and employers, 
or even sovereign, beyond the protection or 
support which, directly or indirectly, they 
afford them ? The law obliges the one to 
place himself in the ranks to be shot down, 
and if he refuses, objects, hesitates — if he 
dares to desert, or show the least insubor- 
dination, he is strung up and put under the 
lash ! The whip is applied oftener on the 
Saxon soldier — if I may judge from your 
newspapers — than on the American slave. 
Augustine called poesy " the wine of de- 
mons." Bacon says, " the mixture of a lie 
doth ever add pleasure." What often ap- 
pears mountains in the distance to the navi- 
gator, proves to be vapor as you approach 
— so the cruelties you picture to the Ameri- 
can slave are simply the offspring of a 
willing fancy. " It is ignorance and not 
knowledge that rejects instruction ; it is 
weakness, not strength, that refuses co- 
operation " — so is it envy and not generosity 
that stimulates abuse; jealousy against the 
white man, not affection for the African, 
that characterizes your abolition sentiments 
— envy keepeth no IwUdays. You would give 
me strength of memory which I cannot 
claim, and the powers of debate which I do 
not possess, wereyou to expect me to answer 
all the sallies aimed at me during a five- 
night debate, but I will show you the ab- 
surdity of one or two similies advanced. 

Mr. Edwards pictured a poor girl in her 
dirty home in a dirty village, brought to 
London by some noble lord — educated, 
dressed in silks and satins — the price of 
which was her loss of virtue, as illustrative 
of the negro free in Africa, and a slave in 
America. All this is beautiful in theory, 
but its non application will be seen by my 
asking a question. Might she not have lost 
her virtue in the dirty home he pictured — 
(hear, cheers, and laughter) — without the 
collateral advantages of education, &c., 
which he portrayed ? for it is not notorious 
that the negro had lost his freedom in 
Africa for centuries ? Negro enslaved ne- 
gro before the white man entered the field ; 
and you will find upim the records of time 
that Africa holds all the patents for the 
original institution. (Hear, hear.) He 
asked also if the education of the Jew boy, 
Montara, was a justification for the crime of 
kidnapping. Now, Mr. Chairman, I ask of 
you if the education of the Jews and prosti- 
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to discuss these points — have anything to 
do with American shivery? (Hear, hear.) 
I answer them by relating a negro conver- 
sation under a hen-roost. " Pompey ! don't 
you tinl< dat it am wrong to steal chicken 
belongin' to odder people?" "Cajsar! dat 
am a great moral question, dat you or I hab 
not de time nor de brain to lucidate. Pass 
down anotJter prtUef." (Cheers, and loud 
and continued laughter.) I have read all 
the authors quoted and more — Lord Mun- 
caster, Grosvenor Smith, Major Gray, Cap- 
tain Morseby, Major Denham, Clapperton, 
Commodore Owen, Mr. Ashmun, Laird, 
Rankin, Colonel Nicholls, Mr. Oldfield, 
Captain Cook, Canot, and Dr. Livingston, 
and others, all of whom described the 
wretched state of the African, and the low 
state of civilization there, proving beyond 
dispute that tliere is a much wider field for 
Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Brougham, Exeter 
Hall, and Mr. Edwards in Africa, than they 
would ever find in America. (Hear, hear.) 
I appreciate Mr. Lee's honest views of abo- 
lition more than I do his argument, that the 
death of a friend of his increased population 
— the man while living opposed his daugh- 
ter's marriage — he was killed, the daughter 
married and had children — hence increase in 
census ! (Hear and laughter.) This would 
hold good were we not aware that in Scot- 
land, and some other Christian countries, 
population had enormously increased with- 
out any marriages appearing in the records. 
(Loud laughter, and " That's so.") You 
must admit the African is not as intelligent 
as the Englishman — there are types in man, 
degrees in nature. Wilberforce, Clarkson, 
Romilly, Channing, Wayland, Darwin, Phil- 
lips, and even Mr. Lee — (hear, hear) —must 
admit this ; they cannot believe the African 
equal to the Caucassian. Can you make a 
pointer out of a poodle ? Can you get a 
peach out of a crab-apple ? Can you grow 
an oak from a pea-nut? Can you change a 
carrot into a melon ? Will a donkey pro- 
duce an Arab horse ? Can you bring a 
chicken out of an egg plant? Can you 
make an e^gle out of a duck? or breed a 
lion out of a pole cat? (Hear, hear.) No, 
gentlemen, but under the Christianizing in- 
fluence of modern science, it is much more 
reasonable that England will introduce a 
new trade of manufacturing silk purses out 
of sows' ears. The Roman Novelist Petro- 
nius, in Nero's time, described two literary 
men, who wished to hide a robbery they had 
committed on board a Levantine ship, by 
covering themselves with ink, in order to 
pass as Ethiopians, and thus escape detec- 
tion : — if color alone could transform our 
shape, said Griton, it would be easy — arti- 
ficial color besmears the bodj' — but can we 
fill our lips with an ugly swelling? Crisp 
our hair with an iron ? Mark our forehead 



with scars ? distort our shanks into a curve? 
and draw our heels down to the earth ? We 
must do all these things or the lie will not 
succeed. (Hear, hear.) But the hand of 
time points towards the midnight hour, and 
I must hurry on to my plan of abolition — so 
emancipation must be gradual. (Applause.) 
Of the fifty millions now in Africa, some 
forty millions are still slaves. It was no 
unusual thing in former days to see the pens 
where the war prisoners were stored to fat- 
ten preparatory to being eaten. They were 
stall-fed for the market, and hung up and 
cut up as you would sell a sheep or an ox. 
Young girls were considered the greatest 
delicacies, but when tough with age they 
became beasts of burden. Guilty of all 
crimes, accustomed to the lowest acts of 
barbarians, always at war, strangers to 
education, civilization, and Christianity — 
brutalized by the lowest depravity — the 
question arises, no matter what the motive, 
has not his removal to America bettered his 
condition, improved his morals, elevated his 
mind? (Cheers.) Has not that been the 
first step towards regeneration ? There can 
be but one response ; and I have already 
proved my case that American slavery to the 
nerjro is a stepping-stone from African 

BARBARISM TO CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION ! 

(Cheers.) In conclusion, you are impatient 
for me to prove myself an abolitionist. 
(Yes ! and time!) I shall not do it by hav- 
ing a servile war — or as you did it in the 
West Indies — to quote the Times : " You 
not only emancijiaied every negro in the West 
ladies, hut pretty nearly mined every plan- 
ter to boot." Cochrane went too fast in his 
New York speech when recommending the 
arming of the slaves — and Cameron was 
mistaken in dwindling down the glory of our 
nation to an abolition war — and that dis- 
tinguished statesman, who never held an 
office, — that presidential politician, who 
never made a speech — and that great gen- 
eral who never fought a battle — Fremont, 
— came within an ace of running the ship 
upon the rocks in the breakers at St. Louis, 
by pledging the Cabinet to a servile war. 
(" Hear, hear," and applause.) Robespierre 
and Brisso, in 1791, tried the equalizing 
principle in St. Dimingo — and Alison has 
vividly painted the massacre, speaking of 
the Haytian drama, " That negroes" said 
he, " marched with spiked infants on their 
spears, instead oj colors ; they sawed asunder 
the male j^risoners, and violated the females 
on the dead bodies of their husbands. The 
Cameron-Fremont policy would have pro- 
duced similar anarchy on the Palmetto 
plantations, had it not been summarily 
checked by the strong arm of Lincoln, and 
the wise policy of the Secretary of State — 
and I cannot better express my sentiments 
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words of Earl Russell three nights ago in 
ihe House of Lords — I am — (said the noble 
'• Earl in reply to Strathd'en) — sure that we 
"are all anxious that the sin and stain of 
" slavery should cease ; but there is nothing 
" that we should look at with greater alarm 
" than an insurrection of four million of peo- 
««ple — the devastations, the horrors, the 
" pillage, the murders, which in the name of 
" liberty would be committed ! We trust, 
"when "the present contest shall end. the 
"emancipation of the negroes will be 
" brought about by peaceable means without 
" the loss of life or destruction of the pro- 
"perty of their masters. (Cheers.) It is 
" not owing to their masters that slavery now 
" exists in the Southern States ; it is an 
" inheritance which they derived from this 
"country." (Hear, hear.) Such sentiments 
are worthy of this great statesman, who 
assisted by Argyle, and Gladstone, and 
Gibson — in carrying out the wishes of his 
Queen in checking Lord Palmerston from 
plunging England into an uncivilized and 
unchristian war with America. (Cheers, 
and " Where isyourplan of emancipation ?") 
You shall have it, gentlemen, so plainly that 
you cannot misunderstand it. — If you wish 
to reclaim the swampy morass, cut off the 
fountain that supplies it. — I classify my 
plan under four heads. 

First — Abolish the African slave trade. 
We have done evil that good may come. 
Gordon is no more — the President has had 
the nerve in showing his honesty in suppress- 
ing that traffic, by baring his breast against 
powerful combinations, and hanging the 
first slaver ever executed under the laws of 
piracy. (Hear and applause.) Second — 
Having stopped the stream, we must drain 
the swamp, and fence in the pool — don't 
allow another foot of slave territory under 
the Union — draw a line of fire around the 
scorpion, by strong laws, so that he may 
buru to death if he attempts to cross it — 
these points cut off its supplies and fence it 
in. (Hear, hear.) Thirdly — Under this 
head I propose to emancipate the white 
people first, the Oligarchy must be destroy- 
ed. Now the Oligarchists are passing away 
with every victory. (Applause.) The only 
way to destroy this Oligarchy, and emanci- 
pate the millions of white people it has kept 
in check, is to cut off the political power of 
slavery. (Cheers, and that's good.) Five 
negroes must no longer give three votes to 
the platner, in order to give him a position 
in the councils of the nation, to hatch a plot 
for its destruction. (Not Constitutional.) 
Liberty was the acorn, and the Constitution 
was the flower pot in which it was planted 
— the sapling has out-grown its boundary — 
and the Constitution can easily be amended, 
so as to give the tree wider limits, now it 
has arrived to manhood. (Cheers.) The 



Seceding States have already lost their 
charters through their treason, and as ter- 
ritories might again be admitted as States 
under an amended Constitution. (Hear, 
hear.) I now come to the fourth point — 
having dammed off the streams, drained the 
land, emancipated the white people, the 
morass already begins to be a garden for 
the African. Now let us emancipate him. 
(Cheers.) Let the States pass a law under 
the guidance of the Constitution, compelling 
the planter, as a slight tax upon his treason, 
to give the slave his own labor one day in 
the week, to work out his own freedom — his 
price fixed at a fair value, and arranged 
under guarantees that the slave shall have 
that day as well as over hours to purchase 
his liberty — this knowledge stimulates ambi- 
tion, gives him self-reliance, so that when he 
has earned his freedom, he is also educated 
to appreciate it. (Cheers.) The world will 
have before them a plan — public opinion 
will so act upon the planter that many will 
emancipate such slaves as can take care of 
themselves at once, the strong and active 
negroes should be made to work out the 
freedom of their parents and children where 
they are unable to do it themselves. This 
would strengthen the social ties, and, before 
a generation passed over, all the slaves may 
have educated themselves for freedom — the 
loss of the slave's labor to the planter for 
that day may raise the value of the cotton, 
so that the consumer pay a portion of the 
bill, and abolition England by purchasing 
that cotton will have earned the credit she 
has worked for so long, of bettering the 
condition of the negro slave. (Cheers and 
applause.) The swamp, gentlemen, will 
soon be fertilized by the enterprising Yan- 
kees, who will pour down to guide the 
negroes in their labor, and by superior 
industry make the Southern desert blossom 
like the Northern rose. (Applause.) And 
the Southern Cross will receive by this 
means its fairly-earned Northern Crown. 
(Cheers.) Delaware and the District of Co- 
lumbia should emancipate their six thousand 
slaves on next Fourth of July — (cheers) — 
Missouri and Maryland follow suit on the 
next Anniversary of Washington — (cheers) 
Yirginia and Kentucky must keep pace 
with public opinion, in order to join all the 
slave States in the great celebration of 
Eighteen-seventy-six, of General Emanci- 
pation on the First Centenary of our 
Glorious Union. (Loud cheers.) 

In I'eply to one honorable speaker, who 
asked, if the slaves were set free at once, if 
they would not organize a system of their 
own — I thought that I had before proved 
that the African will not work without a 
master. The European combines and suc- 
ceeds. The Asiatic race, also, understand 
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But the African has no idea of a joint-stock 
enterprise. Thoy were always bondsmen — 
but they must not be called slaves. The 
work stinks almost as bad as the neoTo — 
not quite — for the negro's pores are always 
open ! Enslaving debases, I admit, the 
enslaver — (hear, hear, and "That's so") — 
but, thus far, has elevated the slave. " True," 
and hear.) The Africans never combine. 
Persians, Asiatics, and Tartars have had 
armies, but who ever heard of such a thing 
as an African army, an African regiment, 
an African bank, an African joint-stock 
association of any kind? Be assured the 
negro is a one-horse mind, with a one-story 
intellect. (Laughter.) Under guidance, 
they will work — alone, they wallow in idle- 
ness. Nature never intended the negro to 
be our master, or even our equal, but our 
servants. Nature's plans are simple ; her 
results are sublime. Every infant born is 
another link in Nature's chain. Progres- 
sion is her first law. The sun comes on, 
and leaves us at the horizon, but is always 
moving. Little things make great things. 
Day breaks by degrees, and night comes on 
under a regular law. Barbarism always 
precedes civilization — (cheers) — mythology 
comes before theology — superstition before 
religion — ideal before the real — natural 
before spiritual. The superior follows the 
inferior throughout history ; so freedom 
must succeed slavery. (Loud cheers.) Asso- 
ciation succeeds progression, and develop- 
ment follows association. Creation is a 
study. Man is linked with everything in 
the animal, mineral, and vegetable world. 
The grain of corn is planted in the spring — 
it progresses, it associates, it developes. 
Man eats it in the morning — at night it 
becomes part of the blood, the flesh, and 
the bone, and the next day a portion of the 
brain — perchance a human thought working 
out some patent reaping machine. (Loud 
applause.) The world is worked on a won- 
derful system. The Creator made the negro 
as well as his master, and in making him he 
gave him bodily strength to make up for his 
mental weakness. (Hear.) The old kings 
and patriarchs of the Bible were bad men. 
In our day such crimes would have sent them 
to the gallows. (Laughter, and " Question.") 
Who questions it? (Renewed laughter.) 
Madame Tussaud would have had them all 
in the Chamber of Horrors. (Applause.) 
Their bondsmen did not fare so well as our 
slaves. Good comes out of evil. Astrology 
prepared the road for astronomy — alchemy 
preceded chemistry — soothsaying foresha- 
dowed prophecy — and priestly traditions 
came before the wonderful realities of 
modern science. What then prevents Ameri- 
can slavery from showing the door to general 
emancipation ? (Cheers.) Where there is 
now land all was once water — and where 



there is now water all will sometime become 
land. Time is the Igveler. Time will emanci- 
pate the negro. (Cheers.) The Almighty's 
ways are all his own. Corn and flowers 
may yet grow abundantly in the African 
desert. The gospel of Jesus will yet Chris- 
tianize the heathen. Perhaps as it is doing 
through American slavery. (Hear.) The 
lion and the lamb some day will lie down 
together. Electricity will perhaps conduct 
the locomotive at two hundred miles the 
hour, as easily as it now sends messages as 
many thousands at a flash. Some invention 
will yet be made for this mysterious agency. 
Lightning may yet conduct away all disease 
from the home of man. The air itself may 
be controled with as much facility as the 
navigator sails his ship upon the waters. 
Time is the greatest inventor, and having 
convinced you — (No)~that American slavery 
was one stepping-stone, it may turn out that 
the American civil war will become another, 
perhaps the great and last .stepping-stone 
which will bring universal freedom to the 
slave. (Loud Cheers.) 

Will you give me two minutes more ? — 
(hear, hear, and yes) — it is only to' ask Eng- 
land to assist me in carrying out my plan — 
charity begins at home, and I want to get 
the Victor Hugos, the Sutherlands, and the 
clever George Thompsons, aud John Brigh,ts, 
of abolition, to get England to pass the fol- 
lowing resolutions : 

Resolved, That from this day we will not 
wear a slave-grown cotton shirt — sleep be- 
tween slave-grown cotton sheets — (hear) — 
wipe our faces with slave-grown cotton 
towels — use slave-grown cotton clothes on 
our children — or slave-grown cotton hand- 
kerchiefs ; that we will not wear a particle 
of clothing — walk on a single carpet — or 
have anything to do with any article that 
requires a particle of slave-grown cotton in 
its texture. (Cheers.) 

Resolved, That we and our men-servants, 
nor our maid-servants will not drink another 
drop of slave-grown coS'ee, or put another 
lump of slave-grown sugar in our tea. — 
(Cheers.) 

Resolced, That we will eat no slave-grown 
rice, or corn, or grain. (Applause.) 

Resolved, That we will never smoke an- 
other slave-grown cigar — take another pinch 
of slave-grown snuti' — (laughter,) — or use 
another pipeful of slave-grown tobacco in 
the " Forum ;" (cheers, and bad for Comber,) 
— that the five and a half-millions sterling 
revenue received for these articles be abol- 
ished by prohibiting them altogether. — 
(Cheers and applause.) 

This will be consistency — I asked it for 
my cause — for you cannot be consistent and 
pay a direct premium in slavery, by buying 
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(Hear, hear, and that's so.) My argument 
is closed. I thank you, gentlemen, for your 
courtesy and your attention, and ask you if 
I have not gone further than you have done 
in' my abolitionism? (Hear, hear.) If not, 
I will conclude by saying, once for all, that 
I would do away with the Christian mode of 
cwiUzinr/ the heathen (loud cheers) ; and that 
you may thoroughly appreciate how much of 
a reformer I am, I may mention that I would 
go further — I would also do away with the 
rumshops- — close the opium-dens — I would 
abolish courts and prisons — I would have no 
bastards — no paupers — no Cypriaus — no 



drunkards — I would do away with dice-box 
and cards — with envy, hatred, jealousy, slan- 
der, and all uncharitableness — I would seek 
to improve mankind by sweeping away vice 
and crime, and substituting virtue and hap- 
piness ; and most assuredly I would do away 
with this accursed plan that England has 
introduced into our country of elevating the 
black-man by a system which has debased 
the white race, until it finally culminated in 
the most damning treason (loud cheers) ever 
recorded on the archives of time against the 
grandest Republic humanity has ever wit- 
nessed! (Loud and continued cheering.) 



GEOUGE FRANCIS TIUH ON "PARDOmNG TRAITORS." 

"WOULD CIVILIZATION BE ADVANCED BY THE SOUTH 
GAINING THEIR INDEPENDENCE?" 

[^From the London American of March 12, 1862.] 



■' Would civilization be advanced by the 
South gaining their Independence ?" was 
the question discussed on Monday evening, 
March 10th, where Dr. Johnson once held 
forth: — "Sir," said he to Boswell, "let us 
take a walk down Fleet street." 

Mr. Train: — Nine speakers have already 
spoken for the North, and none for the 
South. Whence this change ? A few 
weeks ago, and you were all Secession ; 
now, everybody is for the Union. (Hear.) 
As no one has touched upon the question in 
the paper, why should I ? All you can ex- 
pect is, that I should talk America, and 
wander from point to point as others have 
done — (laus^hter) — but I hail this change of 
tone as a happy omen. (Hear.) If a few 
salaried writers form public opinion in the 
Times — making England despise America — 
why should not the clever debaters that fre- 
quent this hall be allowed to represent the 
masses of your nation? (Hear, hear.) 

ENGLAND HAS TUENED ENTIRE- 
LY ROUND. 

England has turned completely round — 
the Trent has drawn all her fire — Mason 
drops down here like a spent shell — and 
our lands are bound to be more friendly 
than ever. (Hear.) I speak the voice of 
our people, when I tell you that none of us, 
disgusted as we may have been at your 
neutrality — (laughter) — endorse the strange 
speech of Lovejoy. (Cheers.) A pupil of 
tlae Shaftesbury school — and remembering 
that his brother was shot over his Abolition 
printing press in Illinois — you will not blame 



even him for feeling annoyed to see England's 
apparent forgetfulness of slavery, in sympa- 
thizing with the slave oligarchy that sought 
the ruin of our empire. (Hear.) 

RISE AND DECLINE OF SECESSION 

IN ENGLAND. 

I am glad to see that Secession is dead 
in England ; Russell settled it in his block- 
ade letter — and its rise and progress during 
twelve months is noticeable by Gregory's 
motion last year to acknowledge the Con- 
federacy — and this year vainly trying to put 
a question as to the jjlockade being effective ! 
— Yancey's advocacy was weak as water ; 
but Mason's letter was water diluted. It 
turns out that the six hundred ships that 
run the blockade were a few fifty ton 
schooners on the inland estuaries, and 
steamboats between Memphis and New 
Orleans ! (" Oh," and " question.") Civi- 
lization was the point, and as every speaker 
has dodged it, you, of course, expect me to 
take it up. Well, then, the South does not 
possess the elements of civilization. (Oh.) 

THE SOUTH UNABLE TO STAND 
ALONE. 

If they cannot get on with the North — 
what can they do alone ? They want a 
standing army and free trade ! — that is a 
paradox. They want an oligarchy and im- 
migration — that is a contradiction — for emi- 
grants will not go where they have no 
representation. (Hear.) They want open 
ports and manufactures — that is also an- 
other impossibility. Even let them carry 
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dead lock for revenue — an export duty on 
cotton is an import duty in another form. 
(Tliat's so.) 

IT IS WITHOUT THE ELEMENTS 
OF CIVILIZATION. 

Besides, as I said, the South has not the 
elements of civilization. (Oh — and hear.) 
Where are they then ? Let the gentleman 
who interrupts me take all the advantage of 
his interruption and answer me if he can. 
(Hear, hear.) Is it in juriaprudence ? 
Where are their Storys — their Kents — their 
Wheatons — their Parsons and their Bige- 
lows ? (Hear.) Is it in Finance ? Where 
are their Bateses — their Peabodys— their 
Browns and their Sturgesses ? Is it in 
Commerce? Where are their Goodhues — 
their Taylors — their Forbeses — their Apple- 
tons and their Grinnels. (Cheers.) Is it 
in sliiphuilding ? Where do you find their 
Webbs — their Mackays, and their Wester- 
velts. Is it sculpture ? Where are their 
Greenoughs — their Ilosmers — and their 
Powers. (Applause.) Is it in painting? 
Where are their Alstons— their Stuarts, and 
their Benjamin Wests? (Cheers.) Is it in 
manufactures? There are no Manchesters, 
and Walthams, and Lowells, and Lawrences 
in the South. (Hear, hear.) Is it in his- 
tory ? Where are their Bancrofts — their 
Prescotts — their Sparks, and their Mot- 
leys ? I can see nowhere in Secessia the 
elements civilization requires. Is it in ro- 
mance? AVhere are their Washington Ir- 
vings — (Cheers.) — their Fennimore Coopers, 
and their Hawthornes ? Is it in poetry ? 
Show me where to find their Holmes — their 
Willises — their Lowells and their Longfel- 
lows — (Cheers.) — Is it in Inventions ? Who 
filled the Exhibition of Fifty-one with im- 
provements that still live in England ? 
(Hear and applause.) Where did McCor- 
mick hail from ? where Colt ? whence came 
the Enfield Rifle ?— Was Hobbs a South- 
erner ? and who furnished the Secession 
Times and Telegraph and three-fourths the 
Journals in London with presses to abuse 
America during the Reign of Secessia, 
but our Northern Colonel Hoe. (Cheers.) 
Where was the Niagara built? and was 
the Yacht America a Southern Institution ? 
(Hear, hear.) No — gentlemen — these are 
some of the elements of our Yankee civili- 
zation — peculiar to our Yankee climate, 
and Yankee habits not yet appreciated in 
Secessia. (Cheers.) Is the common school 
system of New England an element of 
Southern civilization ? The South alone 
benefit civilization ! — Why, Mr. Chairman, I 
have proved its absurdity. Bearing in mind 
the debate on previous evenings, I will 
answer one or two Secession fallacies. The 
gentleman from Australia says that no black ' 



man in the North would be allowed to enter 
a room like this for public discussion, and 
this in face of the fact that there are two 
negroes admitted at the bar in Boston, and 
have practised there for several years. 

WE DO NOT WANT CANADA. 

He also spoke of America's intentions re- 
garding Canada. — America wants nothing 
from Canada. — The two lands are as differ- 
ent as the two people — one is day — the 
other night. (Laughter and hear.) One 
is going to a funeral — the other a wedding. 
One is the old world without any progress by 
assimilating with the new. In Canada they 
can't even make a barrel. (Laughter.) — 
The only great thing accomplished there is 
about the grandest swindle of this, the nine- 
teenth century, the Grand Trunk Railway. 
(Oh, and hear.) Another spoke of unjust 
representation, citing Rhode Island — Con- 
necticut — Vermont, and New Hampshire, 
with a small population having so many 
electoral votes ; and yet he omitted to men- 
tion that Arkansas — Texas — Florida pur- 
chased of Spain — Louisiana bought of 
France — and Texas of the Mexicans — have 
equal representation in the Senate of the 
United States. (Hear.) Original Secessia 
entire with its six hundred thousand square 
miles of country, has but two millions seven 
hundred thousand white people — while New 
York, with but forty-seven thousand square 
miles, has a population of three millions 
eight hundred thousand, and Pennsylvania, 
forty-six thousand square miles, has a popu- 
lation of two millions nine hundred thou- 
sand. (Applause.) These two States alone 
have more population than the Two Seces- 
sias, and ten times the wealth. (Cheers.) — 
Little Massachusetts has a bank capital of 
fifteen niillions sterling, while all Secessia 
boasts of but thirteen millions ! (Applause.) 

THE REBELLION A GIGANTIC 
HUMBUG. 

I tell you the Rebellion is a gigantic hum- 
bug — (laughter) — a gigantic sham !— where 
are their successes ? (Bull Run, Ball's 
Bluff^question, and laughter.) Must I 
again tell you that the nation was sold 
at Manassas, by treachery, as General 
Stone sold his country at Ball's Bluft"? 
(Shame.) But are we alone in reverses? 
Look at England ! at Peiho ! at Cawnpore ! 
at Cabul and at the Redan ! (Hear.) Look 
at Russia in Circassia — France in Algeria — 
Austria in Italy, and now the Spaniards in 
Mexico ! Surely we are not alone — The 
Pretender with two thousand Scots frighten- 
ed all England a century ago! Our seven 
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gigantic is our territory — but one man to 
every mile and a half of border. 

AMERICA MERELY HAS THE 
YARIOLOID. 

Lamartine eloquently observes — every 
Revolution has its birth — every birth its 
pang — every pang its groan ! AH nations 
have their diseases. — We are just going 
through the varioloid — (laughter) — having 
passed the scarlet fever, measles, and chic- 
ken-pox on the heights of Abraham — 
(laughter) — and the plains of Saratoga.— 
(Cheers.) Our tree of liberty is sound at 
the core. — We are only shaking off the cat- 
terpillars that have so long disfigured its 
branches. (Hear, and applause.) 

WASHINGTON AND CROMWELL 
VOLUNTEERS. 

I am tired of listening to England's sneers 
about our volunteers. You seem proud of 
your hundred and fifty thousand men — 
(cheers) — let us take the same ratio of glory 
lor our volunteer millions. (Laughter and 
applause.) Sneer not at the volunteers — 
"Washington was a volunteer — so was Robert 
Clive at the battle of Plassey — and Oliver 
Cromwell was not educated at the Horse 
Guards. (Laughter.) The two-spot is too 
much for the ace of clubs if it happens to be 
a trump. 

SEPARATION NOT NECESSARY. 

One speaker thinks that civilization would 
follow separation, on the ground that States 
become too large to be prosperous. Hence 
he agrees with Bulwer in breaking America 
into parts. England, to say the least, has 
never followed that plan. (Hear.) She went 
to Lidia in Elizabeth's time, and put Prince 
against Prince, until she was enabled to 
absorb the entire empire of two hundred 
millions. (Cheei'S.) Had she gone on your 
theory — India would be off the reel long ago 
— and Australia — and Canada — and Ireland ! 
— Again, what a spectacle of weakness the 
petty Principalities of Germany— Central 
and South America present — compared to 
the consolidated strength of seventy millions 
in Russia — and forty millions in France — or 
even England herself, with an empire on all 
the oceans ! (Cheers.) 

REBELLION, FIRST PALSIED, . 

NOW DEAD. 
No, Mr. Chairman, the revolution is dead. 



It received its first attack of paralysis — 
when Congress voted five hundred thousand 
men — and five hundred millions of dollars ! 
(Cheers.) It experienced its second attack 
when, after the Trent affair, England and 
France refused to acknowledge their inde- 
pendence. (Applause.) And now comes 
apoplexy and death, when the Commander- 
in-Chief of the Army and Navy sounded the 
bugle and gave his order to his Lieutenant — 
Charge, McClellan, charge ! — On to Ma- 
nassas, on ! — were not the last words of 
our Presidential Marmion 1 (Cheers.) The 
world will shortly see how gigantic has been 
the success of the North — (Oli, and where) 
—and how gigantic the failure of the South ! 
Secessia was a sham at the start, and has 
been a sham all through the revolution. 
(Oh, and interruption.) 

AMERICA CAN AFFORD A GIGAN- 
TIC PARDON. 

Now, as America goes to war in a gigan- 
tic way, I am prepared to show for once in 
our great strength — gigantic clemency! 
(hear) — and suggest that as we have killed 
Secessia that we still keep our originality in 
doing things differently from Europe — by 
giving our erring fellow-citizens — a gigantic 
pardon! (Loud cheers.) England sends 
her rebels to Tasmania — France to Cayenne 
— and Russia to Siberia- — but let America 
follow out the good work she has begun in 
liberating all the State prisoners in Fort 
Lafayette — Fort McHenry, and Fort War- 
ren — and pardon all the traitors, without 
any security for the future but the sentiment 
of Union. (Cheers.) Hanging is really too 
good for them. (Laughter.) They ought 
to be compelled to live among those they 
have deceived, and obliged to associate with 
their own kindred. (Laughter) — No more 
terrible punishment could assail them. — If 
a man has a fault, trust his own family ti' 
find it out. (Laughter.) Let one sister go 
astray, and there is no more happiness for 
her in her father's household. — Let one boy 
at school have a patch on his breeches, and 
every boy will chalk the place, (Laughter.) 
Pass through a village and they will tell you 
where the Gambler lives — where the Cyprian 
receives her guests — where the murder was 
committed — all these haunted spots are 
pointed out with scorn to be shunned by 
honest men. (Hear.) So let the President 
pardon all the traitors and compel them to 
reside in their own localities among the 
Union men they have been kept under by 
the strong arm of powder and ball, and jus- 
tice will soon find its proper measure in tar 
and feathers ! (Laughter and question.) 



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GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN ON CANADA, AND ITS RELATION 
TO THE UNITED STATES. 

[From the London American of July 2d, 1862.] 



So many absurd theories have been set 
afloat regarding America's hankering after 
Canada, we are glad to see that Mr. Train's 
opinion coincides with our own. Americans 
no more think of absorbing or invading Can- 
ada than they do England. 

The defeat of the Militia Bill gave rise to 
the recent debates in the discussion halls, 
and Mr. Train argues to prove that the (Ca- 
nadians care really as little for England as 
America does for the Canadians. 

Mr. Train : — Large bodies move fast — at 
least England lost no time in showing her 
affection for her dear cousin during the 
Trent explosion. (Hear.) Small bodies 
move slow — at least Canada makes no haste 
to pass the Militia Bill. England said to Can- 
ada, Arm. Canada, wishing to get England's 
money, burst into the full bloom of a loyal 
colony. England asked the world to look 
and behold a loyal people. Look at the Ca- 
nadians — what affection — what valor! Out 
went the troops, and back came the rebel 
ministers. (Hear, hear.) Parliament meets 
— the fifty thousand Militia Bill comes up — 
the French minority combine with the En- 
glish, and the bill is lost — Cartier over- 
thrown. The English journals remain silent 
for days and weeks. The Times speaks at 
length. If Canada cannot appreciate our 
friendship let her go. England don't care. 
Other journals follow, and all are disgusted. 
England stopped the tap, and Canada's loy- 
alty fades away. (Hear, and Oh.) Colonies 
are like human beings — money is the test of 
friendship — loyalty consists in an open bung- 
hole. (Laughter.) England finds time to 
lecture America on taxation — why not talk 
to Canada? Their tax-bill covers all that 
grows and all that lives. Canada is not a 
free-trade pupil. I can readily understand 
why the Canadians overthrew the Militia 
Bill. They know that war between England 
and America means making a battle-field of 
Canada. (Cheers.) With England Canada 
is weak — without her, strong. Let Canada 
set up business herself, and she will hold up 
her head and be someljody — (oh, and hear) 
— but let her hang on to E^ngland's apron- 
string and copy Ireland in progress ! Cana- 
dians should ponder over England's seces- 
sion doctrines. So should the Irish. If 
secession is justifiable to the South, why not 
equally so to Canada and Ireland? (Hear.) 
Lower Canada likes France better than 
England. (No.) Did the French Canadians 



show any hospitality to the Prince of Wales ? 
(Hear.) Certainly not ! But when Prince 
Napoleon was there every door flew open at 
once. Lower Canada is French in language, 
customs and religion. Their associations 
are all with France. (No.) How can you 
say no, when Frenchmen discovered the 
country — and Frenchmen founded the colo- 
ny. England's connection with Canada is 
comparatively recent. (Oh.) Who first 
made the Canadian shore ? An Italian, Se- 
bastian Cabot, in the Seventh Henry's time, 
Dennys was the next, a Frenchman, in 1506. 
Arbort followed — also a native of France — 
and took back with him to Paris some of the 
natives of Canada in 1523. Then the First 
Francis sent out his four ships — and the Eo- 
beval Expedition was lost and Cartier died. 
This was in 1549. During the next half 
century Frenchmen made the coast, but the 
colony of Quebec was only founded in 1 608, 
to be conquered by Britain in 1761, and 
finally ceded by the Treaty of Paris to En- 
gland in 1763, since which Canada has been 
a colony of this empire. So you see I was 
right in saying it was of recent date. (Oh, 
and hear.) Canada has a thousand miles of 
shore along the lakes without a fort — and 
in case of war all her cities could be taken 
by our armies in six weeks. (No.) Let 
Canada cut the painter and she is safe. But 
it was a pitiful sight to see her bluster in 
the invasion excitement. The outbreak of 
the Canadians during the Trent affair re- 
minds me of the active wife who drove her 
husband under the bed, and venturing to 
look out she told him to put his head back. 
" Never," said he, " so long as I have the 
spirit of a man within me." (Laughter.) My 
principal object in rising to-night is to cor- 
rect an impression that seems to have sunk 
deep into the English mind — and that is, 
that the Americans want Canada. Now, if 
you want to insult the American people, that 
is the most sensitive way. (Laughter.) I 
never yet heard an American say that he 
wished to have Canada. (Oh.) Who ever 
heard of a prosperous city wishing to annex 
the town poor of a neighboring city. (Hear.) 
I have seen a strange sight, where the alms- 
house a nation wished to be set off in a field 
by itself, as in the case of Secessia — (cheers) 
— but annexation of a bed-ridden land is 
another thing. You have only to cross the 
line to see the difference between indolence 
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One is the Old World, the other the New. 
Oue is going to a funeral, the other to a 
wedding. (Laughter.) Americans are not, 
and never have been ambitious to be bur- 
dened, as Eugland is, with such a thriftless 
community. All our treaties have been to 
Canada's advantage. Canada has intro- 
duced Federal currency — dollars and cents — 
and the Reciprocity 'JVeaty has begun to 
instil a little enterprise into the people. The 
climate is cold — Americans prefer their ice 
in hot weather. (Hear.) Canada and the 
United States started about the same time — 
the oue has thirty millions; the other, three 
— the one has poets, historians, and states- 
men ; the other, a Grand Trunk iSwiiulle ! 
Canada's course towards the United IStat s 
has been contemptible during our troubles ; 
and 1 hope that the Ameiicans will remem- 
ber it when Canada comes to Washington 
begging to be annexed to our Grtat Eepub- 
lic. ("Oh," cheers, and laughter.) When 
you hear any one say that America wants 
Canada, please deny it. There ij a wide 
difference between stealing greeii appieis and 
having your neighbor present tL-^jJi to yuu 
after they are ripe. Canada rings herself 
into notoriety by always saying America 
M'auts to annex her, and it pleases England's 
vanity to keep up the deJusioii. How aston- 
ished that iiegress was, when, asking for a 
pair of flesh-colored stockings, the thought- 
ful shopman handed her out a pair of black 
ones. (Loud laughter.) America would 
not accept a colony that did not possess 
enterprise enough to make a barrel ! — 
(Laughter.) Never believe all you hear. 
England is always giving Canada good ad- 



vice. Chesterfield's son must have been a 
stupid ass to have required so many letters 
telling him how to act when going into com- 
pany. ( I'hat's so.) Canada was foolish to 
tlare up so on the Trent. " ^Vhat did you 
take that tobacco out of my chest for," asked 
the sailor ; and his mate ({uietly replied, " 1 
did not." "Then I am a liar, am I," follow- 
ing up the movement with a blow. (Laugh- 
ter.) England was equally active on the 
Trent. 

If Canada behaves herself, Some day we 
may consent to let her have the beneht of 
some more of our institutions. (Uh, and 
hear.) But England ought not to calculate 
upon the Canadians being loyal. " There is 
a horrid rumor," said a frail and lovely 
countess once to a noble earl, " that is being 
circulated to my disgrace at the West-end, 
that 1 have had twins." " Give yourself no 
uneasiness," replied his lordship. " 1 never 
uelieve more than half 1 hear." (Laughter.) 
Canada is five millions short this year — and 
the Grand Trunk Railway is making her 
shorter. If Canada will keep on her side of 
the fencC' — America will promise not only 
not to molest her, but will not even mention 
her name or give her another thought. 
Canada's sympathy with the bouth will not 
make one hair black or white, nor will Eng- 
land's. America is beyond the reach of 
Europe. Neutrality now has lost its sting. 
That couplet of Lord John JMauuers has 
become famous. 

Let truth and honor, God and justice die, 
But give us ever our base ueutialjty. 

(Cheers and laughter.) 



GEOPiGE FFiANCIS 



TMIX'S 
THE 



DEFENCE 
1111811. 



OF IRELAND AND 



;the lion bearded ix his deni 

From the London American of June Ath, 1862. 



One of the chief points in the events of 
late which have come under notice in the 
Discussion Halls is the state of Ireland. 
The recent agrarian murders have alarmed 
the landlords, and England and Ireland 
stand face to face, each calling the other 
bad names. Mr. Train, availing himself of 
repeated attacks against the United States, 
made a decided hit on Saturday night, in 
turning the argument on Ireland, and al- 
though the interruptions were frequent, he 
kept his ground, he undoubtedly having a 
great advantage by being so frequently 
called for before he rises to speak. 



Mr. Train said : The two features of 
to-night's debate are misrepresentation of 
America and abuse of Ireland. America 
has many champions — Ireland none. I have 
spoken for Americans ; I intend to say a 
word for the Irish. It chills my senses tu 
hear you jeer and sneer and throw coutemp 
on that gallant race (hear). Two millions of 
Irishmen are countrymen of mine (cheers), 
— and I will not sit quietly and hear in an 
English audience, Ireland trod down and 
abused. I like the Irish race. Ireland has 
done much for England ; but what has Eng- 
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crime, despotism, and tyranny ! (Oh!) What 
a paire of violence, injustice and bloodshed. 

(Cries of no, no.) Mr. says no— show 

me then an oasis in the desert of her his- 
tory ; show me a ray of sunshine in the 
darkness of her horizon. Poor Ireland ! — 
rich in nature — in mountains and in rivers 
— with fruit in her gardens and fish in her 
streams — the unhappy mother of a brave 
people made humble by despotic and cor- 
rupt Government. Poor Ireland — the land 
of Curran, and Grattan, and Shiel (cheers). 
Where Power acted, and Moore sung his 
sweet melodies — (cheers) — and Sheridan 
Knowles wrote some of the finest dramas 
in our language — (cheers) — who last week, 
in his seventy-eighth year, made a beautiful 
speech, full of affection and tears of his 
native mountains (hear, hear). Poor Ire- 
land ! what has she done that England 
should have treated her so? The land 
that furnishes England with so many brave 
armies, whose sons to-day are leaders in the 
■ftr^rkl — Premiers of two nations (applause) 
and Generals in them all (cheers.) You 
produced but one great name in your Napo- 
leonic wars — his pictures are in your galler- 
ies, his monuments in your squares. That 
man was Arthur Wellesley— the Irish Duke 
of Wellington (cheers). Who rules to-day 
in Spain ? An Irishman — Marshal O'Dou- 
uell. Who won the great Italian battle? 
Stand forth MacMahon, the Irish Duke of 
Magenta! (cheers.) Who won the battle 
of Winchester, but the twice senator, the 
shot-proof Irishman, General James Shields ! 
(loud cheers.) And who rules supreme in 
England — beloved by his people ? Have 
you forgotten that Lord Palmerston is a 
son of Ireland? (Loud cheers.) Poor Ire- 
land ! How sad is the story of thy wrongs 
— every page of thy history is a record of 
robbery, pillage, and conquest ! (Oh bosh!) 
The gentleman has twice interrupted me ; 
let me say to him, that when he applies 
that word to my remarks, it signifies talent, 
brain, and intellectual power (cheers and 
laughter) — neither of which will any one 
accuse him of possessing (loud laughter, 
cheers, and some dissent.) All the speakers 
to-night have been arguing that the South- 
ern Confederacy ought to be acknowledged 
(hear). Observing this, I am disposed, for 
argument's sake, to agree with you, and 
apply the rule to Ireland (Oh ! and ap- 
plause). Ireland-would be better by herself 
— more independent, more free, more happy, 
and would open her ports to all the world. 
You have no right to interfere with her 
customs, her laws, or her religion. When 
the liomans made war they adopted the 
habits of the conquered people — England, 
on the contrary, tries to make them English, 
She is not happy — not contented. Vegeta- 
tion grows in her streets and misery broods 
in the faces of her people. Let Ireland go 



— let America acknowledge the Irish con- 
federacy. As Woods was historian of the 
Prince of Wales, so Giraldus Cambrensis 
recorded the incidents of Prince John in 
his Irish tour, calling the peasants goats 
and sheep, which would become capital 
game for English sportsmen. Cambrensis 
Eversus was more caustic, 3'et equally un- 
generous. One was Trollope the First, 
villifying the Irish people. The other was 
Trollope the Second, piling on the agony 
(hear, hear, and loud laughter). Centuries 
have gone since the armies of that old 
coquette, Elizabeth, cut through your pea- 
santry. Long is the time since that old 
idiot King James— (laughter) — overran that 
unhappy land with his perambulating scaf- 
folds and his ready made executioners. 
Poor Ireland ! — what a life of conquest. 
Then Charles came with his packed juries 
and confiscation, followed by Cromwell 
expatriating eighty thousand of thy sons, 
and knocking down all thy Churches — 
followed by the Second James and his 
excesses and the Treaty of Limerick — and 
then comes the destruction of thy individu- 
ality. Thy Parliament Houses turned into 
barracks — thy custom houses into stables 
for the King — thy squares filled with monu- 
ments to illustrate the overthrow of thy 
religion, and thy eyes blinded by giving 
■your eight millions a hundred representa- 
tives to Parliament, while England's eigh- 
teen millions have over a thousand. And 
this is the laud where Robert Emmet told 
Lord Norbury his country's wrongs, and 
Daniel O'Connell stood boldly up, and 
Smith O'Drien banished, and The O'Don- 
oghue threatenetl, if he dare to speak of the 
wrongs of his native land. (Oh.) You say, 
Let the South go. I say. Let Ireland go 
(cheers, and a voice, "Ireland is now pros- 
perous"). Ye&, said Mr. Train, but what 
has made her so? — America (cheers). Who 
have added wealth to our land ? — -the Irish. 
Who built our factories, our canals and rail- 
ways? — the Irish (hear). And in their well 
paid labor, because well earned, they find 
large sums of money, which they have beea 
sending their people for many years. Ten 
milUo^is sterling since the Famine. A 
noble trait of the Irish character. I like 
the Irish people, and your attacks on Ire- 
land on account of the recent agrarian 
outrages are most unfair (hear). Look 
over your criminal record and you will find 
more brutal murders in England during the 
last year than in Ireland (no). Have you 
forgotten the Stepney murder, and the Head 
murder, and that of Nottingham Forest and 
Coventry ? or even last week that at Man 
Chester and another in Londoa ? (hear). 
You have as dark deeds on your calendar 
as Ireland has, and 1 cannot bear to hear a 
land I like so much so unkindly spoken of 
as she is in England. Let me say to the 



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Irish people — Come to America — (cheers), 
where you are appreciated — come over ia 
thousands and hundreds of thousands, where 
a wek'-ome shall await you — for Americans 
cannot forget your deeds of bravery in the 
dark pages of our war (cheers.) You have 
fought nobly in our army, you love our 
Union, and we like your noble devotion to 
the land of your adoption, Ireland for the 
Irish. Meagher is now one of us (hear), 
and Judge M'Lean was a native of Erin — 
that land of fair women and brave men. 
Edmund Burke was also an Irishman. 
Would that you had some more Burkes 
and more O'Connells to speak for you in 
the nation's council (hear.) The O'Don- 
oghues, the Maguires and the Hennessys are 
not asleep to your wants — but Irishmen 
must band together to win their rights. 
My plea for Ireland, to-night, is more just 
than yours for Secessia (Cheers). If you 
think disunion in America beneficial, how 
much more so would be disunion between 
these islands (hear). Let me candidly say 
to the brave Irish Regiments who are fight- 
ing our battles what one of their country- 
men said on another occasion — 

Whether on the gallows high, 

Or iu the battle's van. 
The fittest place for man to die, 

Is where he dies for man. 

(loud cheers). Hurrah then for Mulligan 
and Kennedy, and the gallact Corcoran — 
the worthy countryman of the shot-proof 
hero of Winchester (hear). Americans 
begin to be less sensitive. TroUope says, 
we copy France in manner, speech, dress, 
and cooking. He should have added, 
Americans begin to care as little for Eng- 
land's opinion as France does (hear). France 
laughs at England — America must do the 
same. England used to pinch France, now 
France pinches England — America is copy- 



ing the habit. England is now thin-skinned 
as well as thick-skulled (oh !) M. Assolant, 
in the Courier de Paris, cuts deep — Eng- 
land shakes with rage. M. Trexlcr, in the 
Siede, is equally happy with his dissecting 
knife — how the English squirm ! Ridicule 
is a good thing when based on truth. When 
you joke always joke'on facts (oh ! oh ! oh ! 
and prolonged laughter). The French wri- 
ters say the English are put in stalls at the 
restaurant by themselves, like vicious horses, 
to keep them from biting each other (laugh- 
ter), — France is emancipated — so is Amer- 
ica. Our people will never again cringe 
before English public opinion. Write what 
you please — misrepresent — exaggerate — lie 
— swear — bear false witness. (Oh, " We 
don't.") No matter what you do ; for 
America, like France, will be no longer 
sensitive. England must now take her 
turn. American writers are coming over 
to describe England ; and when four o'clock 
comes, we hope the sentry will find All's 
well ! (hear.) America will continue to be 
the shrine for the emigrant, (iod bless our 
foreign citizens. Open wide our gates. 
Let them come — the more the merrier. 

From the Vine land, from the Rhine land, from thfl 

Shannon, from the Scheldt, 
From the ancient lands of genius, from the sainted home 

of Celt; 
From Italy, from Hungary, all as brothers join and come, 
To the sinewbracin;;; hugle and the foot-propelling drum ; 
For proud bent-ath the starry fia;j; to die and keep secure 
The liberty they dreamed of by the Danube, Elbe, and 

Suir! 
And they who, guided by the stars, sought here the hopes 

they gave, 
And all aglow with pilgrim fire their happy shrines to 

save; 
Here Scots, and Poles, Italians, Gauls, with native em- 
blems Trioht, 
There Teuton corps, who fought before. Fur Freihtit und 

fur Licht, 
While round th'^ flag the Irish like a human rampart gn. 
They found Cead JSlille Failthe here, they'll give it to the 

foe ! (Loud cheers.) 



GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN'S REPLY TO THE REVEREND 
BAPTIST NOEL'S LETTER. 

From the London American of July Wx, 1862. 



TO THE EDITOR OF THE " LONDON AMERICAN." 

18 St. James's street, July 7, 1862. 

Dear Sir : — The Reverend Baptist Noel 
says that the subscriber is doing all he can 
to make Americans and Englishmen hate 
each other. He is wrong. One-sided love 
never pays. America's affection has not 
been reciprocated by England. Forgive 
our enemies is divine law, but where is it 
written that we should Forgive our 
Frit ads? When I discovered that Eng- 



land's abolitionism meant America's destruc- 
tion, I made speeches to expose the foul 
plot to ruin our nationality. Words of 
friendship annoy rae. I prefer actions. All 
1 have done to arouse the censure of your 
reverend correspondent is to give blow for 
blow, which is scriptural. America was 
struck and turned the other cheek, little 
thinking that England would strike that 
also ! She did, and we were ill at the time. 
We are better now. If the Rev. Baptist 
Noel wishes us well why did he not write 
some of his high and noble relations to show 



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less animus to the Americans in their 
troubles, instead of censuring me? The 
clergymen met to pray for peace at Exeter 
Hall during the exciting days of the Trent. 
Lord Shaftesbury refused to preside. Why 
did he not write a letter then to prove his 
friendship for our people ? Lord Brougham 
recently made a shameful attack upon our 
nationality. Why not remonstrate with 
the aged libeller of ourcountry ? The Times, 
on our American holiday, wrote the most 
insulting of its leaders. Does he think that 
such things tend to make Englishmen and 
Americans love each other ? So few in this 
land have the moral courage to examine 
into England's social, political, commercial, 
and financial position, 1 kindly volunteered 
my services, which do not seem to be ap- 
preciated. America has furnished English 
critics with subjects for ridicule for genera- 
tions. 'J'he topic is worn out. A little 
change I thought desirable, so I shifted the 
scene. When England says that America is 



bankrupt, I do not now, as formerly, argue 
to prove that she is not. I simply say that 
England has been bankrupt for years. When 
told that America is corrupt, I respond, so 
is England. And simply because I put the 
burden of proof on England I ought to be 
commended instead of blamed. The moment 
I found out that the old stereotyped expres- 
sions of Common law. Common language, 
Common literature, and Common worship 
of our International Social Re-uuions were 
only hypocritical words spoken to cover up 
England's animus that laid beneath, I 
thought that I was doing England a service 
— and if the Reverend Baptist Noel would 
use his aristocratic influence upon those 
who have the power to make them revoke 
the acknowledgment of traitors as bellig- 
erents, he will do our people more good than 
by firing Revolvers against the Parrott guns 
of your much-abused and unassuming cor- 
respondent, 

GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN. 



GEOEGE ERAKCIS TRAm AO THE IRISH. 

Frovi the London American of July 2th, 1862. 



Mr. Train's speech on Ireland seems to 
have gone like magic throughout the island. 
St. Patrick Societies are passing resolutions 
to his honor, and Irishmen are flocking 
around him as to an old friend. Mr. Train 
has now the hearts of the Irish in both 
lands. His letter to the Dublin Society 
awakens some new thoughts on Ireland's 
future. 

18 St, James's street, 
Independence day, 1862. 

My Dear Sir,— The Fourth! What 
glorious recollections ! — what a world of 
history since that day ! Thanks — and many 
too — for your generous and patriotic invita- 
tion. How kind of you to remember the 
national birthday of my people — yes, of 
your people too — for Irish blood circulates 
in our veins more and more each genera- 
tion. Already millions of your countrymen 
are mine, and millions of my countrymen are 
yours. Is it not singular that the Americans 
should love the Irish better than the Eng- 
lish do? Our land is full of Irishmen. 
Your Irish Shieldses — your Corcorans — 
your Kennedys — your Mulligans — your 
Meaghers — aie no*? among our American 
heroes. America has j. a' d millions for Irish 
labor, and the laborer has sent millions back 
to Ireland. (Fifteen years ago 1 established 
the first Irish agencies throughout New 
England and the Western States for the sale 



of prepaid passenger certificates and small 
bills of exchange ; and the thousands of emi- 
grants taken to America in Train & Co.'s 
line of Boston packets leads me to suppose 
that the name I bear, and the commercial 
house in which I passed my boyhood, is still 
kindly remembered by the Irish emigrant, 
the Irish post-poffice, and the Irish banker.) 
Irishmen in America are welcome, happy, 
and contented. How could we have built our 
forty thousand miles of railway without the 
Irish? Our canals — our factories — and our 
public works all bear witness to Irish indus- 
try. AVho helps to dig our mines — build 
our ships — rear our cities — and work their 
way up the ladder of fame to make our 
judges and our statesmen, more than the 
hardy, honest sons of Ireland? In this ter- 
rible rebellion that convulses a portion of 
our empire, Ireland sided with the right — 
England with the wrong! — your laud is 
known to mine. My land is known to you. 
Our Irish clubs and Irish regiments cele- 
brate St. Patrick's anniversary in all our 
cities. — Our Patrick Donohue's Boston 
Pilot — Mullaly's New York Metropolitan 
Record — the Irish American — and other 
Irish journals, are the newspaper links that 
bind together our respective countries. All 
that passes in your country is made known 
through these channels in my country. 
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— is as free in America as tlie air we breathe 
and the water we drink. And Irish children, 
like American, are educated by the State. 
England refuses you permission to raise 
volunteers — America is more generous. The 
American Government have no standing 
army quartered in our capitals to keep 
down the Irish ! One more word, in which 
is all the point of my letter. The Home- 
stead Bill has passed both Houses, and is 
noio the lata of the United States. Tins 
century has produced no Government Act 
so important to European millions. Do 
you know its meaning ? I will tell you. It 



offers a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, 
in any part of the public domain in any 
State selected by the actual settler — en- 
tirely free ! Irishmen, take my advice. 
Pack up your household goods and go to a 
country where every Irishman can become 
a Landlord free of expense, and where, in 
five years, he may have a vote and make 
the laws that govern him, which he will 
never be allowed to do in Ireland. 
Yours Truly, 

GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN. 
D. H. Hayes, Esq., Hon. Sec. National 
Brotherhood of St. Patrick, Dublin. 



CELEBRATION IX LONDON, OE EOURTH OF JULY, 1862. 

BEING THE EIGHTY-SIXTH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN 

INDEPENDENCE. 

[From the London American of July 9th, 1862.] 



A desire having generally been expressed 
among Americans resident in England that 
the Anniversary of American Independence 
should be recognized by some demonstration 
in London or in the vicinity of the metropo- 
lis, a committee was appointed to make the 
necessary arrangements. The committee 
consisted of the following gentlemen : 

D. J. Macgowan, M. D., Hon Freeman 
H. Morse, A. W. Bostwick, Esq., Hon. 
Henry M. Lord, Hon. Sidney Sweet, R. 
Hunting, Esq., Hon. Frederick Smyth, Rev. 
J. H. Rylance, J. S. Prettyman, Esq., W. 
Lee, Esq., W. J. Valentine, Esq., B. F. 
Brown, Esq., H. B. Hammond, Esq., John 
Young, Esq., L. A. Bigelow, Esq., Henry 
Starr, Esq., Dr. F. Coar, W. B. West, Esq., 
Thomas H. Dudley, Esq., George Francis 
Train, Esq., Sewell Warner, Esq., C. R. 
Schaller, Esq.', Professor Charles A. Lee, 
M. D., George Starbuck, Jun., Esq., Nathan 
Thompson, Esq., J. H. McChisney, Esq., 
James Smith, Esq., Professor Charles D. 
Cleveland, J. F. Cropsey, Esq., W. G. Crea- 
mer, Esq., G. W. Belding, Esq., Benjamin 
Moran, Esq., Perkins Bacon, Esq., L N. 
Fowler, Esq., Hon. L. Eastman, Hon. John 
M. Marshall, Charles L. Wilson, Esq , Jas. 
McHenry, Esq., Col. B. P. Johnson, George 
P. Bemis, Esq., N. MacLaughlin, Esq., P. 
J. Derrin, Esq., Thomas W. Fox, Esq., J. 
R. Maltby, Esq., M. Nason, Esq., James 
Wilcox, Esq., Thomas Silver, Esq. 

After due consideration it was finally de- 
cided that a dinner at the Crystal Palace 
would be the most fitting demonstration for 
the occasion. Consequently on Friday after- 
noon, Americans and their friends sat down 
to a well prepared dinner in the south wing 
of the Palace. 



The table was handsomely decorated with 
flowers, confections, and the national colors, 
one of the chief ornaments being a beautiful 
silk flag, presented by Margaret Blouut to 
the Editor of the " London American," for 
the occasion. 

Among the distinguished persons present 
we noticed Hon. Freeman H. JNIorse and Mrs. 
Morse, Charles L. Wilson, Benjamin Moran, 
G. F. Train, Dr. Macgowan," J. S. Pretty- 
man, H. B. Hammond. C. F. Adams, Jun., 
G. ^V. Belding, R. Hunting, L. A. Bigelow, 
Hon. Frederick Smith of Manchester, N. H. ; 
A. W. Bostwick,- Thomas Silver, Miss Sil- 
ver, Mrs. E. S. James, formerly of Detroit, 
Mich. ; Miss Plaister, George P. Bemis, 
Boston, Mass. ; W. J. Valentine, B. F. 
Brown, Jonas Smith, New York; Jonas 
Smith, Jun., do. ; Mr. Pangburn, do. ; E. 
C. Hall, do.; H. A. Lyman, do.; Mr. 
Kirsch, Chicago; Miss M. A. Drew, New 
York ; Prof F. W. Newman, University 
College, London ; Henry Vincent, London ; 
Messrs. Shields, San Francisco; Joseph 
Moshimer, Nevada Territory ; Mr. and JMrs. 
J, M. Rae, Indianapolis, Ind. ; J. H. Red- 
stone, do. ; Sewall Warner, London ; Mr. 
and Mrs. J. F. Cropsey, do. ; Jas. Bealc, do. ; 
George W. Chipman, Boston ; Mrs. Chip- 
man, do. ; Mr. Chipman, Jan.. do. ; Mrs. 
Richards, London; Mr. and Mrs. H. W. 
Taylor, do. ; Mr. Lockwood, do. ; Dr. Eph- 
raim Cutter, Massachusetts ; W. N. Wilson, 
do.; Miss Eastman, do.; Rev. J. H. Ry- 
lance, Mr. T. D. Part, Mr., Mrs. and Miss 
Williamson, Mr. Samuel Marshall, AV. 
Cook, J. S. Prettyman, Mr. Stalwick, Mr. 
Gilmore, W. H. Baden, T. M. Eller, John 
Aldfield,.Mr. AV'ilson, jNIr. Stone, Captain 
Washer, J. P. Howard, Edinburgh ; Dr. F.. 



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Coar, Lonclon ; Mr. and Mrs. W. Churchill, 
Eobert Stokes, John Stokes, Mrs. P. E. 
Eogers, New York ; J. M. Earle, Philada. ; 
J. Coats, London ; J. Randolph Clay, do. ; 
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Hope, do. ; Mr. Robert 
Maitland, do. ; Mr. and Mrs. L. Hyatt, Edin- 
burgh ; Col. R. M. Hoe, London ; Dr. C. A. 
Lee, New York; Mr. Henry Hart, Louis- 
ville, Ky. ; Rev. Frederick Frothingham, 
Portland, ]\[e. ; Edward Mason, London ; B. 
B. "Whisker, do. ; Jacob Hoffner, do. ; Dr. 
E. Hills, Ohio ; Mrs. R. Hills, do. ; C. B. 
Hotchkiss, Paris ; Julius Ives, N. Y. ; Al- 
fred P. Putnam, do. ; Abbot C. Krittridge, 
Charlestown, Mass. ; R. Ogden Doremus, 
M. D., New York ; C. R. Schaller, London ; 
J. H. Wilson, do.; Mr. and Mrs. L. N. 
Fowler, N. Y. ; S. R. Wells, do.; J. R. 
Maltby, Calcutta; Henry Pollard. W. P. 
Dewey, E. E. Dewey, do. ; E. P. Dewey, M. 
Breaster, Henry Hunt, Charles Ryland, Jun., 
Jas. Wilcox, London ; Jn. G. Aveny, do. ; 
Jas. Hall, do. ; Jno. Wilson, do. ; Mr. Mozier, 
do.; T. Mason Jones, Dublin; Rev. J. J. 
Kelley, Detroit ; Mr. La Plaine, N. Perry, 
Jun., G. N. Abeel, F. Franklin Durant, and 
others whose names and addresses, unfortu- 
nately, are not in our possession. 

A large number of letters had been re- 
ceived by the Secretary, from various parts 
of England and the Continent, from various 
dignitaries who had been invited, that could 
not attend, which were read. 



After dinner the Chairman arose, and 
after signifying that the time had come for 
the intellectual part of the repast, said — 
Whether it is tossing upon the rolling bil- 
lows, or journeying in foreign lands — whether 
at home or abroad, this day returns to me 
full of joy and pleasure. (Cheers.) Now, 
my friends, the first thing to be done on an 
occasion like this, is to turn our thoughts 
back to the land of our birth or adoption, 
and to remember our country when abroad. 
(Cheers.) I will therefore propose for the 
first sentiment on this occasion. " Our 
country, one and indivisihle ; may peace 
and harmony speedily prevail throughout 
its entire dominions.'' (Immense cheering 
— and "Hail Columbia," by the band.) The 
chairman then introduced the sentiment, 
Tlie President of the United States" — (great 
cheers) — as follows : — I am sure no Ameri- 
can need utter a complimentary word con- 
cerning the President of the United States, 
for there stand his acts ; history will record 
them, and future generations will speak of 
them. Allow me to introduce to you an 
English gentleman who has kindly consented 
to respond to this sentiment. I will call 
upon the Rev. J. H. Rylance, who rose, 
amidst the cheers of the assembly, and said:— 

Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen : — 
The honor is committed to me of responding 
to the name of Abraham Lincoln, the Pres^ 



dent of the United States ; a name which is 
the embodiment of patriotism, integrity, 
justice, and entire devotion to the good of 
his country. (Cheers.) This day eighty-six 
years ago, the United States became a nation, 
the day on which we meet finds her in what 
we may call her second birth agonies. Eighty- 
six years ago she gained her independence ; 
now she is struggling for an independence 
without which that first independence was 
rather a pretence, or a mockery, than a re- 
ality. (Cheers.) She is struggling for aa 
independence from that dark, huge evil which 
hung upon her like a great drag-weight. 
When she comes out of this terrible ordeal 
purged from this dark stain, as she without 
doubt will do, she will stand before the world 
and command the respect and homage of all 
who are just and honest enough to accord it. 
(Cheers.) I am happy to say thut I know 
the United States, not through information 
derived from those who have been to New 
York only and back, but I know the people 
from actual intercourse, dwelling among 
them, in their homes, schools, colleges, chur- 
ches, and in all the departments of their 
individual and collective life ; and I know 
them but to love them. From the first hour 
that Abraham Lincoln grasped the reins of 
government — no, not grasped them, but re- 
ceived them at the hands of a willing and 
confiding people, from the first hour he so 
modestly and yet in so magnanimous a man- 
ner accepted the direction of national affairs, 
Abraham Lincoln has not belonged to any 
political party — (cheers) — but from that day 
to this, the Constitution only has been his 
guide, and his name has not been mentioned 
as belonging to any party. (Cheers.) All 
minor considerations have been forgotten, 
and all party 'distinctions have been sunk 
beneath the grand name of Nationality — 
(cheers) — and Abraham Lincoln is a national 
President. (Cheers.) I need only to refer 
to his acts ; they speak his character and 
pronounce his worth. (Cheers.) I will so 
far refer to the sentiments of my own country 
as to say, that there is no more sorrowful 
indication of the slowness of many to do 
justice to the AVashington Cabinet than 
their neglect to notice the bold, humane, 
and straightforward measures of that Cabi- 
net. It was said, " show us that the bearing 
of the struggle is in the direction of liberty, 
and we will sympathize with you ;" but what 
are the facts ? With a mind crushed beneath 
the cares and burdens of a struggle greater 
than any recorded in history, Air. Lincoln 
has done deeds which will immortalize his 
name as a great, wise, and sagacious states- 
man. (Cheers.) The foundation of your 
capital rests for the first time in soil conse- 
crated to liberty ; and territory now or here- 
after belonging to the Government is declared 
now and forever free. If England wishes 
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Washinjrton, what rloes she need more than 
the treatj' for the suppression of the slave 
trade ? (flear, hear.) These are facts which 
ou^ht not to be ignored, nor shouhl the time 
be dehiyed which is to bring fortli something 
more than promises, seeing that this struirgle 
tends both to humanity and liberty. Trulj' 
this recognition by England of her deep, 
earnest, warm, cordial sympattiy for those 
who are carrying on this struggle should not 
longer be deferred. (Loud and prolonged 
cheers.) 

The third regular toast: " The Queen of 
England," when after some appropriate re- 
marks by the Chairman : Three cheers were 
given for her Majesty, and " God Save the 
Queen," was played by the band. 

The fonrth regular toast : " The Fourth 
of July, 1776. An era in the history of 
liberty. May it he remembered and ob- 
served as long as human rights are acknoio- 
ledged among men, and the love of civil 
liberty remains," wliich was responded to 
by the Rev. Fred. Frothingham, of Portland, 
Maine. 

The fifth regular toast : " The Constitu- 
tion of the United States," which was 
responded to by the Rev. A. P. Putnam, of 
Roxbury. Mass. When mention was made 
of the "Old Bay State," the whole company 
rose en masse and gave three hearty cheers. 

The sixth regular toast : " Oar Free 
School System, the Republic's necessity, 
guide and protection," which was ably 
responded to by Professor J. W. Hoyt, 
Secretary of the Wisconsin State Agricul- 
tural Society, and editor of the Madison 
Farmer. 

The seventh r^^gular toast : " The Army 
and Navy of the United States — humane, 
patriotic and brave. While their deeds 
pass into history, let them be suitably 
rewarded, and their memory cherished by 
a grateful country," which was responded 
to by Rev. Mr. Kittridge, of Charlestown, 
Mass., as follows : 

'•Mr. Chairman, ladies aiKl gentlemen — 
There is something, sir, peculiarly appropri- 
ate, and which appeals to our emotions of 
duty as well as of pleasure, in the language 
of the sentiment which has now been given 
— The Army and the Navy ! Had that 
toast been given two years ago to-day, it 
would have failed to have excited any en- 
thusiasm, for the simple reason, that the 
good providence of God had not then dis- 
covered to us, a peaceful, prosperous people, 
the necessity of this arm of the national 
strength, nor had them linked closely to- 
gether, as now, by the dearest of ties, the 
homes of America with its army and navy. 
But, sir, in these words to-day there is a 
deep, thrilling meaning. Who, sir, are the 
more than half-a-million that stand on 
American soil at this hour, in the soldier's 
dress, aud armed with the weapons of death ? 



Are they, sir. the regular standing army of 
the United States? No, sir! Are they 
hirelings, bought to fight our battles, while 
we remain quietly at home? No, sir! Are 
they from the dregs, the scum of society — 
from the dens of our large cities, as some 
would have us believe ? No, sir ! Have 
they then been forced to enter a service, 
not sympathizing in the great purpose of 
this struggle? Sir. I affirm to-day, in the 
face of many statements to the contrary in 
foreign periodicals, that not one individual 
man of these 700,000 has entered the service 
of the United States, except from his own 
free, voluntary desire. Why, sir, (if you 
will pardon a personal allusion,) the last 
public duty which I performed before leav- 
ing America, was to speak farewell words 
to two companies from my own city, who, 
at the unexpected call of our President, had 
sprung joyfully to arms. Aud yet, sir, so 
universal had been the response to that call, 
that before three days had elapsed, they 
were pursuing their daily avocations at 
liome. — Not wanted. — Who, then, are these 
soldiers? They are the bone and sinew of 
the North. " As clouds and as doves to 
their windows," they have flocked from every 
city, town and village to the defence of our 
sacred trust. The delicate youth has grasped 
the hand of the farmer's boy, and the student 
from our universities has shouldered the 
musket with the same eagerness with which 
the plough and the bench have been for- 
saken. What is that army? Industry, 
learning, honor, true soul nobility are its 
elements. The soldier is the citizen, the 
Christian, the man. That is our army and 
navy. "Are they patriotic?" said one to 
me, a few months since. Never shall I 
forget my emotions, when standing on the 
balcony of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in the 
city of New York, with thousands below 
me, stretching far as the eye could reach, I 
heard at the hour of midnight the tread of 
Massachusetts men marching, the first bat- 
talion to the field of battle — fair hands 
waved their tokens of affection — old men 
clasped them in their arms and blest them, 
while from every lip rose the shout, '• God 
bless old Massachusetts." That scene has 
since been repeated in every city and town 
throughout our land, as from Maine to the 
farthest log-built village of the West, patriot 
men have been marching on, not only to 
Washington, but from victory to victory. 
Do you ask for the proofs of their bravery ? 
Patriotism makes brave men — for it is 
founded, not on excitement, not on a tem- 
porary enthusiasm, but on principle, on 
right, on the broad aud glorious corner-stone 
of the truth. I need but remind you of the 
names of the lamented Lyons, Greble. AVin- 
throp and Putnam ; of Siegel aud his little 
band at Pea Ridge — and of the Cumlierlaud, 
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■were even at the water's edge. But. sir, I 
cannot but call your attention to one glorious 
characteristic of our army and navy. It is 
a common declaration in many papers of 
this and other cities across the water, that 
the American war has now degenerated into 
a mere struggle of hatred and revenue, in 
which the worst passions of our sinful nature 
are called into exercise. Sir, as far as the 
army and navy are concerned, this charge is 
Vj'hoUy and totally false, for of no one fact 
may we so well be proud to-day as this, that 
while compelled to fight for Government, 
for liberty, for the truth, that yet with no 
spirit of hatred or of revenge, with no bitter 
animosity, are our armies marching on from 
city to city, and from State to State. Xo, 
sir I sorrowfully do they perform this neces- 
sary task. They know so well, sir, that the 
South have been deceived by the words of 
the traitor as to the true spirit of the Xorth ; 
they feel so deeply that Xorth and South 
are one by the closest of ties, that they 
cannot hate the South, nor fight one moment 
longer than is necessary. But where the 
weapons of rebellion are laid down, the con- 
test is ended — and though now they stand 
with sword and cannon around the altar of 
liberty, because with such weapons that 
altar has been assailed, yet they bear also 
the olive branch of peace and love, as the 
language of a nation's heart, and by this 
they will conquer in the end. Mr. Chair- 
man — I cannot forget, you cannot forget, no 
one at this table can forget, on this of all 
days, the martyr patriots who sleep this 
evening on many a battle-field throughout 
our beloved laud. We would drop the tear ! 
of sorrow, and love, and peace, and our gar- \ 
land of remembrance and gratitude upon I 
their graves — "We, did I say, sir ? Has not ! 
One higher than we, said to each true loyal i 
soul, as He has welcomed it to His presence, j 
" AVell done, good and faithful servant," and i 
the wreath of immortal flowers has been 
placed upon his brow by the Saviour's hand. 
I cannot close these few hasty remarks 
without repeating those lines which I know i 
will be the language of every American 1 
heart : — 

The wine cup, the wine cup, bnng hither, 

And fiU you it up to the brim ; 
May th" wreath? they have won never wither,' 

Nor the ftar of their glory grow dim, 
3I«y the cerrice uniteii neVr sever. 

But ejich to their colors prove true. 
The Army and Navy for ever. 

Three cheers for the Red, White, and Bine. 

Long before the conclusion of the list 
of regular toasts, there were loud cries for 
Mr. Train. The Chairman begged that the 
order of the day might be observed, intima- 
ting that no doubt "Mr. Train would appear 
in the volunteer toasts. This stopped the 
impatience of the company for a time, 
allliough many seemed annoyed that he was 
not among the regular toasts. "When the 



list was completed, the large hall having 
rung aeain with "Train, Train." the Chair- 
man asked if Mr. Train was in the room. 
The more determined he seemed not to speak, 
the more anxious they were to hear him. 
He, no doubt, had his reasons for holdinor 
back so long, as he is not usually diffident 
on such occasions. 

Mr, Train (who was loudly cheered, and 
two or three hisses) — Mr. Chairman, ladies 
and gentleman, — Silence is Science, said 
Xapoleon to the son of Josephine — and wis- 
dom is in few words, is an older adage. I 
did not intend to speak to-day. nor did the 
committee intend that I should, judging 
from the number of their regular toasts, 
from which my name was omitted. (Cheers.) 
I have many chances of speech — others few 
— and knowing that some here objected to 
seeing my name prominent, I kept in the 
background — and you are to blame for for- 
cing me forward. (Cheers.) I heard a hiss 
as I arose, and am not surprised — but for- 
tunately I am as independent of my own peo- 
ple as they are of me. (Ilear.) I know full well 
the snarling envious crew that compose the 
human drift wood of American society abroad 
— men who cannot appreciate talent and 
honesty — who, jealous of their superiors, and 
weak in the upper regions — (laughter) — ex- 
ercise their feeble brains in sneering at men 
of intellect — imitating their web-footed com- 
patriots in speech as well as knowledge. 
(Oh, laughter, and cheers.) But let them 
pass into, that obscurity which they are so 
fitted to ornament, and pardon me for seem- 
ing annoyed at interruptions which were as 
ungenerous as they were uncalled for, and 
let me comment upon some of the remarks 
made by the other speakers instead of speaking 
myself. First, I am amazed to see so many 
distinguished men — in this memorable epoch 
of our national existence — dwarf our great 
strugtjle for national life down to the ques- 
tion of slavery. (Cheers.) 

I am surprised that you, Mr. Chairman, 
and Mr. Rylance, should think so much 
more of negroes than you do of Americans. 
(Applause.) This fault of our people is be- 
coming a vice. For many years I have had 
a strange partiality for white people, espe- 
cially the citizens of the United States. 
(Hear.) And no wonder that it pains me 
arid others to hear the everlasting black 
man brought in for eulogy in every speech. 
(Cheers.) I am as much an abolitionist as 
you are, Mr. Chairman, but the crisis in our 
land reminds me more of the thousands of 
my white countrymen who are perishing to 
save the empire than the system of freedom 
you describe in Liberia. (Hear.) Enough 
of this ! One other remark. I miss, to-day, 
some familiar faces. There are Secession- 
ists in London, Secessionists from our ranks 
to-day, yet we number two hundred strung. 

Mr. Train here started otf into an elo- 



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89 



queot apostrophe to America — cheering Mr. 
Seward for his diplomacy — Mr. Lincoln for 
his firmni-ss and his honesty, and showering 
commendation upon the army, the navy, and 
Mr. Chase. Although commencing his 
speech by criticising the committee — cen- 
suring the chairman for speaking of the ne- 
groes — and lecturing Mr. Adams for his 
want of patriotism in being away — he seemed 
anxious to make up for his ill humor by 
praising all done by the Administration and 
the people. We think that Mr. Train was 
too severe in his remarks — simply because 
two or three insignificant persons hissed 
him. He concluded his speech by a happy 
comparison between the first Napoleon when 
returning from Egypt and Mr. Lincoln de- 
livering his inaugural at Washington. 

Bonaparte (said Mr. Train.) conquered 
Italy and France. Full of glory he invaded 
Egypt — to fight under the deep shadow of 
the pyramids. That forty generation proc- 
lamation still rings in my boyhood's memory. 
Abookir was fought. Ten thousand Turk- 
ish corpses floated along the shore where 
Pompey's mysterious pillar gives interest to 
the city of the Needles, where that dis- 
tinguished courtezan Cleopatra wound her 
Egyptian influence around the virtue of 
General Mark Antony. (Laughter.) Moreau 
and the Army of Italy were smarting under 
defeat, and anarchy reigned once more in 
France. Presto ! a ship is in sight — and 
Bonaparte arrrives in Paris. That year 
Washington died. Sixty-three years ago, 
Bonaparte stood out upon the balcony in 
the Rue Chautereine, and such a shout was 
there from thousands. Gentlemen, (said 
Napoleon), TT7// you help me save the Re- 
public f Swords flashed from a thousand 
scabbards. TT"e sioear it ! shouted the ex- 
cited crowd. The Empire heard the cry 
and France was saved. (Cheers.) Scott, 
and Bourrienue, and Abbott, representing 
different nations, have embalmed the thril- 
ling episode, and all agree that Napoleon 
was the master of his position. (Cheers.) 
Born on one island — marrying a lady born 
on another island^this island mind — for he 
stands alone among Nature's chieftains, was 
sent away to die on still another island. His 
name still lives and will. (Hear.) Four 
Napoleons — but only two dynasties. Napo- 
leon the First is with the French kings in 
the tomb of the St. Denis. Napoleon the 
Second i saw in the metal coffin the other 
day beside his Austrian mother in the Haps- 
burgs' sepulchre in Vienna. Napoleon the 
Third bids fair to sacrifice his throne in 
running counter to the interests of Repub- 
lican France by his bold buccaneering plan 
of forcing monarchies down the throats of 
republics — (hear) — and already has preven- 
ted all chance of the Prince Imperial 
reigning as Napoleon the Fourth in Paris. 
(Hear.) Citizens, will you help me destroy 



the Republic of Mexico ! says the nephew. 
Traitors, will you help me destroy the Re- 
public of America ! said Davis. (Shame.) 
I shut the horrid page. A change comes 
over the spirit of my dream. Citizens, will 
you help vie save the Republic? was the 
patriotic appeal that our nineteenth century 
Washington made from the steps of the 
White House in his Inaugural address. 
(Cheers.) Treason was in the capital I — 
treason in his audience I-^treason stood be- 
hind him with a loaded revolver in the 
bloody hands of the Texan Senator I Trea- 
son in the Senate. Treason in the House. 
Virtuous women, who had prostituted their 
patriotism into treason, were listening at 
the windows ! There was treason in the 
army — treason in the navy ; yet our 
brave President — with head uncovered, and 
God smiling on his honest, manly face, 
boldly cried. Americans, uill you help vie 
save the Union f (Cheers.) The call was 
answered. The world rested a moment upon 
j its centre to gaze at the multitude of bayo- 
I nets that glistened in the sunshine — where 
i did they all come from ? — See them, our bold 
I sailor boys, pour out of the coasters on the 
j sea shore and off the great lakes into the 
! iron gunboats. (Cheers.) Mark the wreck 
I they have made of the rebel navy. (Hear.) 
I See our brave volunteers ! — that human 
j avalanche of earnest men — (cheers) — pour 
I out of the factories, the foundries, the ware- 
I houses, and the colleges — in answer to the 
j President's summons — America.vs, will 
1 YOU HELP ME SAVE THE L'xiox ? (Cheers.) 
! How the tide of living humanity rushes 
: down out of the mountains and pours across 
I the plain, gathering strength and numbers 
until a human rampart stretches along the 
j battle line — (cheers) — a living fortification 
1 of human breastworks connecting the great 
i Western River with the great Eastern 
Ocean — (hear) — a breathing bulwark of pa- 
triot soldiers, 1.500 miles in length, anxious 
to die, if God wills it, in order to let the 
nation live! (Cheers.) Americaxs, will 

YOU HELP ME SAVE THE REPUBLIC ? HoW 

the words spread ! How the patriot hearts 
fired up in ten hundred thousand house- 
holds? We sicear it. How the spirit of 
Seventy-Six lighted up at the call ? TT'e 
sicear it ! replied millions of honest men 
from the AVest and from the North. (Cheers.) 
We sicear it ! with tears on their sad faces, 
shouted millions of patriotic woman — for 
our laud is full of Florence Nightingales. 
(Cheers.) We swear it ! echoed whole 
regiments of little children, who drank in 
whole draughts of patriotism at each cry of 
the newsboy. Another Federal victory I — 
another rebel defeat ! (Cheers.) 

Americans, will you help me save the 
Republic "? — We will. The call was answer- 
ed — the Republic is saved — the echo will 
never die away. AVe know now who are our 



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friends — who onr enemies. God save the 
Union was our cry, and God has saved it. 
(Cheers.) Have you never witnessed the 
gradual dawn of day, when returning home 
during the early hours of a stormy morning? 
The darkness of the night when the moon is 
gone is fearful in its gloom ; but soon the 
curtain lifts a little— the atmosphere is less 
dense — the fog clears away — then comes a 
ray of light, and then another — one at a time 
as the darkness wears away — you feel hap- 
pier, brighter, more cheerful — the morn has 
opened its eyes — the mist has gone— deep 
blue canopy is full of hope. Victory on 
Victory ! How bright the sky — a little 
further on, and the horizAin lights up as if on 
fire — it is the rising of the sun — (cheers) — 
dazzling the universal Empire with its 
myriad rays of Prosperity and Peace ! 
(Loud Cheers.) 

Hon. Fredrick Smyth, commissioner from 
the State of New Hampshire to the Inter- 
national Exhibition, being loudly called for 
spoke briefly but eloquently of the devotion 
of the people of his own State and of the 
entire North to the cause of the Union, 
declaring them to be as firm as the granite 
hills of New Hampshire. He alluded to the 
kindly feeling with which the common people 
throughout Europe, where he had lately 



traveled, seemed to regard the American 
flag — especially in Ireland and France. At 
one of the largest and most respectable 
places of public amusement in Paris he had 
the pleasure a few evenings since of witness- 
ing the Stars and Stripes greeted with shouts 
of applause from an entire audience consist- 
ing of thousands of people of both sexes. At 
the appearance of the flag all rose to their feet, 
repeating their cheers again and ajjain as the 
beautiful folds were unrolled. The speaker 
believed that the star-spangled banner was 
still regarded by the toiling millions of the 
world as their star of hope, and by the bless- 
ing of (jod and faithfulness of those to whom 
it is now committed, those hopes will not be 
disappointed. 

'J'iie speaker was frequently interrupted 
by loud and prolonged applause. 

Mr. Morse having left the chair, Mr. Train 
was called to take his place, and a portion 
of the company remained till the last train, 
arriving in London at midnight. Song, 
anecdote, and sentiment made all go merry 
as a marriage bell. We were presented with 
a beautiful flag, referred to at the opening 
of our report, handed tons by the fair owner, 
an accomplished poetess, whose hands had 
wrought it for the occasion. Our Crystal 
Palace Fete was a grand success. 



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Silver and Pewter, 
Sweeney Todd. 
Life of lienry Thomas, 25 
Dick Turpin, - - 23 
Desparadoes New World, 25 
Ninon De L'Enclos, - 25 
Life of Arthur Spring, 25 
Life of Grace O'MallcT, 38 
Life of Jack Sheppard, 60 
Life of Davy Crockett, 
Life of Guy Fawkes, - 
Roderick Random, 
Memoirs of Vidocq, 



25 



50 

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U. 8. Light Infantry Drill, 25 



The Soldier's Companion, 25 
Volunteer's Text Book, 60 



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Jack Adams, Mutineer, 50 
Jack Ariel's Adventures, 50 
Petrel, or Lite on Ocean, 50 
Life of Tom B..wling, 60 

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The Doomed Ship, - 25 
The Three Pirates, . 25 
The Flying Dutchman, 25 
Life of Alexander Tardy, 25 
The Flying Yankee, - 25 
The Yankee Middy, - 25 
The Gold Seekers, - 25 
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Poor Jack, . . - 
Sea King, ... 

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25 



25 



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The Corsair, . - 25 

Indiana, 2 vols., paper, 1 00 

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Valentine Vox, the 
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The Steward, 
Percy Effingham, ■ 



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Guy Fawkes, - . 

The Star Chamber, 
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of Queen Anne, 
Mysteries Court Stuarts, 



1 00 
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Life of Davy Crockett, 60 

Windsor Castle, - . 60 

Life of Henry Thomas, 25 

Dick Turpin, - - 25 

Desperadoes New World, 25 

Ninon De L'Enclos, - 25 

Lite of .\rthur Spring, 25 

Life of Grace O'Malley, 38 



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Wandering Jew, . . 1 00 
Mysteries of Paris, - 1 00 
Martin, the Foundling, 1 00 

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First Love, - . . 25 



Woman's Love, . 
Man-of-War's-Man, 
Female Bluebeard, 
The Adventures of 
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Washington and his 
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American Revolution, 1 00 



The Quaker City, . 1 00 
Paul Ardcnhelm, - . 1 00 
Blanche Brandywine, - 1 00 
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Ladye of Albarone, . 75 I Legends of Mexico, - 26 
The Nazarene, . - 60 | 



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The Brigand, - - 2.i 

The Rebel Bride, . . 25 

Ralph Runnion. - . 25 

The Flying Artillerist, 25 

Old Put, ... 2.5 



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Wau-nan-gee, - • 
Legends of .Mexico, 
Grace liudley ; or Ar- 
nold at Saratoua, 
The Guerilla Chief, - 
The Quaker Soldier, . 1 00 



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The Border Hover, . 1 00 Ellen Norbury, - 
Clara Morelaud, . . 50 Forged Will, 
Viola, - ... 50 Kate Clarendon, - 
Bride of Wilderness, . 60 

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Leni-Leoti, - . . 2.5 | 

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Major Jones' Travels, 60 
Simon Suggs's Adven. 

tures and Travels, 60 
Major Jones' Chronicles 

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Polly Peabloasom's 

Wedding, ... 60 
Widow Rugby's Hus- 

band, .... 50 

Big Bear of Arkansas, 60 
Western Scenes, or 

Life on the Prairie, 60 

Streaks of Squatter Life, 50 

Pickings from Picayune, 60 
Stray Subjects, arrested 

and Bound Over, - 60 
Louisiana Swamp Doctor, 60 

Charcoal Sketches, - 60 
The Misfortunes of 

Peter Faber, - . 60 

Peter Ploddy, - . 60 
Yankee among llie 

Mernnids, - - - 60 

N. Orleans Sketch Book, 60 

Drama in Pokerville, - 60 

The Quorndon Hounds, 60 



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Rattlehead's Travels,. 
American Joe Miller, . 



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Love in a Cottage, . 25 Lucy Sandford, - 

Love in High Life, . 25 The Banker's Wife, - 

Year after Marriage, • 25 The Two .Merchan'J, - 

The liady at Home, . 25 Insubordination, 

Cecelia Howard, - . 25 Trial and I'riumpu, 

Orphan Children, . 25 The Iron Rule, - 

Debtor's Daughter, - 25 Lizzie Glenn ; or. The 

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Rob Roy, 


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Guy Mannering, . 


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The Antiquary, - 


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Old .Mortality, . 


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Heart of .Mid Lothian, 


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Bride of Lammermoor, 


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Waverly, ... 


25 


Kenilworth, ... 


2.5 


The Pirate, ... 


2.5 


The Monastery, . 


25 


The Abbot, - 


25 


The Fortunes of Nige!, 


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Peveril of the Peak, . 


25 


Quentin Durward, 


25 


Tales of a Grandfather, 


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Red Gauntlet, 
The Betrdthed, . 
The Talisman, - 
Woodstock, - . . 
Uii-'bland Widow, etc.. 
The Fair Maid of Perth, 
Anne of Geierateiu. 
Count Robert ot Paris, 
The Black Dwarf and 
LCL'end of .Montrose, 
Castle Dangerous, and 
Surgeim's Dauiihter, 
MoT-cdun. A Tale of 
1210, ... - 
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Thomas Balscomhei or 
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Adelaide Waldgrave, or 
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Venetia, - 



Young Duke, - 
Miriam -\trov, - 
Contarina Fleming, 



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Lewis Arundel, - - 76 
Fortunes of Harry 
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Roderick Random, 
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Sir Launcelot Greaves, 



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Jonathan Wild, 



Tom Joues, 2 vols. 
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